Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes About Racism

Quotes about: Racism

• I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  White, Racism, Black

  Gwendolyn Brooks (1996). “Report from part two”, Third World Pr

• When white and black meet today, sometimes there is a ready understanding that there has been an encounter between two human beings. But often there is only, or chiefly, an awareness that Two Colors are in the room.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Color, Two, White

  Gwendolyn Brooks, Gloria Jean Wade Gayles (2003). “Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.18, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• The civil rights situation is like a pregnancy. It will get worse, I believe, before it gets better. What the usual pregnancy comes to is a decent baby. That is what we all hope will be the end product of this stress. It is customary, at the end of a pregnancy, to have for your pains a decent baby.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Baby, Pain, Stress

  Gwendolyn Brooks, Gloria Jean Wade Gayles (2003). “Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.18, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a 'Negro' fraction.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Racism, Age, Fifty

  Gwendolyn Brooks (2005). “The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.20, Library of America

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