3 Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes on Death

Gwendolyn Brooks quotes on death

3. We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.

24. He ran like a mad thing into the night And the words in his mouth were stinking. By the time he had hurt his first white man He was no longer thinking. By the time he had hurt his fourth white man Rudolph Reed was dead. His neighbors gathered and kicked his corpse. 'Nigger-' his neighbors said.

35. What shall I say, how is the truth to be said? You were born, you had body, you died. It is just that you never giggled or planned or cried.