127 Quotes by Gwendolyn Brooks

The civil rights situation is like a pregnancy. It will get worse, I believe, before it gets better. What the usual pregnancy comes to is a decent baby. That is what we all hope will be the end product of this stress. It is customary, at the end of a pregnancy, to have for your pains a decent baby.

Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.

Be yourself. Don't imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.

Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.

Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.

This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.

We don't ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.

I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.

I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we're here and we're healthy.