Gwendolyn Brooks

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) was a US writer, poet and novelist known for her strong voice and social observation. Much of work centres around the African American experience in America, as such, considered to have foreshadowed later African American writers' works (such as Imamu Amiri Baraka's). She won Pulitzer Prize in 1950 for Annie Allen, her second book of poems, and became the first African American to receive this prize. She is also well known for her novel Maud Martha.

Wisdom & Quotes

• People have to choose something decently constant to depend on, thought Maud Martha. People must have something to lean on. ... Was, perhaps, the whole life of a man a dedication to this search for something to lean upon, and was, to a great degree, his "happiness" or "unhappiness" written up for him but the demands or limitations of what he chose for that work?

For work it was. Leaning was a work.
- Maud Martha

Paul Zoungrana