Nothing could stop Mississippi.
I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
I don't want people running around saying Gwen Brooks's work is intellectual. That makes people think instantly about obscurity. It shouldn't have to mean that, but it often seems to.
My last defense / Is the present tense.
Be careful what you swallow. Chew!
I 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.