I Am Interested In Telling My Particular

What I'm Fighting For Now In My Work... For An Expression Relevant To All Manner Of Blacks, Poems I Could Take Into A Tavern, Into The Street, Into The Halls Of A Housing Project.

I Don't Want People Running Around Saying Gwen Brooks's Work Is Intellectual. That Makes People Think Instantly About Obscurity. It Shouldn't Have To Mean That, But It Often Seems To.

I've Always Thought Of Myself As A Reporter.

No Man Can Give Me Any Word But Wait.

Life For My Child Is Simple, And Is Good.