Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes - Page 4

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• No man can give me any word but Wait.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Men, Giving, Waiting

  Gwendolyn Brooks (2005). “The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.47, Library of America

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• The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to pick them, to find them lovable. Then the '60s: Independent fire!

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Sweet, Flower, Independent

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• People are so in need, in need of help.
  People want so much that they do not know.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  People, Needs, Want

  Gwendolyn Brooks (2005). “The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.36, Library of America

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• Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Children, Abortion, Remember

  "the mother" l. 1 (1945)

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• Nothing could stop Mississippi.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Mississippi

  Gwendolyn Brooks (2005). “The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks”

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• at a certain moment in social proceedings, I am on FIRE to leave: I have a leaving-FIT.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Fire, Leaving, Moments

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• Life for my child is simple, and is good.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Children, Simple, Simplicity

  Gwendolyn Brooks (1971). “The world of Gwendolyn Brooks”, Harpercollins

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• I've always thought of myself as a reporter.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Reporters

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