In the Mecca Quotes

“One reason that cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.”
― Gwendolyn Brooks, In the Mecca

“It is lonesome, yes. For we are the last of the loud. Nevertheless, live. Conduct your blooming in the noise and whip of the whirlwind.”
― Gwendolyn Brooks, In the Mecca

“Hateful things sometimes befall the hateful
but the hateful are not rendered lovable thereby.”
― Gwendolyn Brooks, In the Mecca

“If
you scream, you're marked "insane."
But silence is a place in which to scream!”
― Gwendolyn Brooks, In the Mecca

“It is not necessary, says Yvonne,
to have every day with him whom
to the end thereof you will love.
Because it is tasty to remember
he is alive, and laughs
in somebody else’s room.
or is slicing a cucumber,
or is buttoning his cuffs,
or is signing with his pen
and will plan
to touch you again.”
― Gwendolyn Brooks, In the Mecca