“What shall I give my children? who are poor, Who are adjudged the leastwise of the land. Gwendolyn Brooks
“Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.Gwendolyn Brooks
“Big Bessie’s feet hurt like nobody’s business, but she stands—bigly—under the unruly scrutiny, stands in the wild weed. In the wild weed she is a citizen. Gwendolyn Brooks
“Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical disguise. Gwendolyn Brooks