Creative Quotations from . . .
Gwendolyn Brooks
(1917-2000) born on Jun 07
US poet. Her works deal with the everyday life of urban blacks; the first black poet to win the Pulitzer Prize.
 
   
F
A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers."

R
I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
A
Poetry is life distilled.
N
Be careful what you swallow. Chew!
K
Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: ""Report From Part One," 1972."
R: "In "My Soul Looks Back, 'Less I Forget," by Dorothy Winbush Riley, 1995."
A: "In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."
N: "Advice to graduates, Buena Vista University Graduation, 1995"
K: "In "Famous Black Quotations," ed. Janet Cheatham Bell, 1995."



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