Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

• We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Love, Inspirational, Wedding

  Gwendolyn Brooks (2005). “The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.129, Library of America

• A poem doesn't do everything for you.
  You are supposed to go on with your thinking.
  You are supposed to enrich
  the other person's poem with your extensions,
  your uniquely personal understandings,
  thus making the poem serve you.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Thinking, Understanding, Goes On

  Gwendolyn Brooks (2003). “In Montgomery, and Other Poems”

• When white and black meet today, sometimes there is a ready understanding that there has been an encounter between two human beings. But often there is only, or chiefly, an awareness that Two Colors are in the room.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Color, Two, White

  Gwendolyn Brooks, Gloria Jean Wade Gayles (2003). “Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.18, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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