As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
Gwendolyn BrooksI like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
Gwendolyn BrooksShe was afraid to suggest to him that to most people, nothing "happens." That most people merely live from day to day until they die. That, after he had been dead a year, doubtless fewer than five people would think of him oftener than once a year. That there might even come a year when no one on earth would think of him at all.
Gwendolyn Brooks