Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.”

“First fight. Then fiddle.”

“What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.”

“Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.”

“Poetry is life distilled.”