Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks (June 7, 1917 – December 3, 2000) was an African-American poet. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1950 and was appointed Poet Laureate of Illinois in 1968 and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1985.
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“Pygmies expand in cold impossible air,
Cry fie on giantshine, poor glory which
Pounds breast-bone punily, screeches, and has
Reached no Alps: or, knows no Alps to reach.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“Hieroglyphics of her eyes
Blink upon a paradise
Paralyzed and paranoid.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“My Tondeleyo, my black blonde
Will not be homing soon.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“What shall I give my children? who are poor,
Who are adjudged the leastwise of the land,
Who are my sweetest lepers....”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“... dusky folk, so clamorous!
So colorfully incorrect,
So amorous,
So flatly brave!”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)