Books are meat and medicine
and flame and flight and flower
steel, stitch, cloud and clout,
and drumbeats on the air.
Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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| Birth: | 7th June, 1917 |
| Death: | 3rd December, 2000 |
| Nationality: | African, American |
| Profession: | Poet |
About
Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks was born on June 7, 1917, in Topeka, Kansas, the first child of David Anderson Brooks and Keziah Wims. Her mother was a former school teacher who had chosen that field because she could not afford to attend medical school. When Brooks was six weeks old, her family moved to Chicago, Illinois during the Great Migration; from then on, Chicago was her hometown. She went by the nickname "Gwendie" among her close friends.
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