Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to pick them, to find them lovable. Then the '60s: Independent fire!

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Sweet, Flower, Independent

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

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Language, Wonder, Achieve

• I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Crush, Clay, Language

  Gwendolyn Brooks, Gloria Jean Wade Gayles (2003). “Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.25, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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