Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes

If people are hungry, ill-clad, unsheltered or diseased, nothing is so important as to remedy their condition.

The poor are our brothers and sisters ... people in the world who need love, who need care, who have to be wanted.

I think I would have been much more attuned to the concerns of people who were desperately in need. I was unfamiliar, for instance, with the plight of those living in the small villages in the deserts and the jungles of Africa.

In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

I am currently in Haiti to help the Haitian people in their reconstruction.

Are some women and children going to die? Yeah. But it's doing the right thing. You got money, you sit around talking about peace. People who don't have money need some help.

Are we not all desperate one way or another?

A hungry man is an angry one.

Somewhere near you, somebody right now is trying to help the indigent and poor - providing food, shelter, clothing or simple kindness.

The hungry man does not hear.

Empty stomachs have no ears.

[Starving] women, children, the elderly, they don’t know anything about four-party talks. They want to eat. They want to live.

What I am interested in is to help this grand President of ours feed the hungry and clothe the naked and provide work for the idle of every race and creed

Destroy poverty, that source of crime, by assuring to each the satisfaction of all needs! And how difficult is this to achieve?

Desire is the very essence of man.

You saw the traumas that people lived through, and wondered what it will take to move us as a human community, as humanity, to help in these dangerous situations.

People are searching for something they don't have in their lives. There's an unfulfilled need.

If I've learned anything in the more than 50 years that I've led MDA, it's that the generosity of the American people knows no bounds. I'm sure that with their fellow citizens in such dire need, they'll dig deep and do everything they can to help. I'm hopeful that many people will be willing to make two phone calls and donate to both causes.

It’s scandalous when one thinks about the people who live in a world in which they need not be hungry, in which they need not die without medical care, in which they need not be illiterate, they need not feel hopeless and miserable so much of the time, and yet they are.

We're not going to let people die in squalor because we are Republicans.

I have always believed that the ultimate purpose of economic policies and development policy is to meet the basic needs of our people. And for that, we need a fast-expanding economy.

I love her. I need her. I gave away everything I had for her. I just wanted her to know me.

Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.

The able bodied poor don't want or need charity.... All they need is financial capital.