127 Quotes by Gwendolyn Brooks

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

I who have gone the gamut from an almost angry rejection of my dark skin by some of my brainwashed brothers and sisters to a surprised queenhood in the new Black sunam qualified to enter at least the kindergarten of new consciousness now... I have hopes for myself.

People like definite decisions, / Tidy answers, all the little ravelings / Snipped off, the lint removed, they / Hop happily among their roughs / Calling what they can't clutch insanity / Or saintliness.

... sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.

I don't like the idea of the black race being diluted out of existence. I like the idea of all of us being here.

First fight. Then fiddle.

We are each other's magnitude and bond.

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

I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.