Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes about Children

What shall I give my children? who are poor, / Who are adjudged the leastwise of the land...
Gwendolyn Brooks, Gloria Jean Wade Gayles (2003). “Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.49, Univ. Press of Mississippi
Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
"the mother" l. 1 (1945)
Gwendolyn Brooks (1971). “The world of Gwendolyn Brooks”, Harpercollins