I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we're here and we're healthy.
Gwendolyn BrooksThere can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man's shirt on its morning run.
Gwendolyn BrooksGood health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
Gwendolyn BrooksI am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean in speech But if I have written a clumsiness, I may erase it.
Gwendolyn BrooksThe 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.
Gwendolyn Brooks