1. "We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond."
-
Quote by Gwendolyn Brooks
2. "Writing is a delicious agony."
-
Quote by Gwendolyn Brooks
3. "I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker."
-
Quote by Gwendolyn Brooks
4. "Poetry is life distilled."
-
Quote by Gwendolyn Brooks
5. "She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves."
-
Quote by Gwendolyn Brooks
6. "Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything."
-
Quote by Gwendolyn Brooks
7. "When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water"
-
Quote by Gwendolyn Brooks
8. "Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air."
-
Quote by Gwendolyn Brooks
9. "When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else."
-
Quote by Gwendolyn Brooks
10. "Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home."
-
Quote by Gwendolyn Brooks