Gwendolyn BrooksThinkers

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

Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.

Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.

Health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.

Minority is a term which, when used in reference to people, is telling them that they're less than somebody else.

The Poem is not supposed to do all the work for you. As a reader, you are supposed to enrich the poem with your extensions.

Poetry is life distilled.

Writing is a delicious agony.