"That’s all you really hope for from a book – that it’s going to resonate with young people and empower them in some way. I believe poetry can get kids reading."

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Source : "Kwame Alexander Q&A: Poetry Provides Possibilities". Interview with Marissa Wasseluk, firstbook.org. March 10, 2015.

Kwame Alexander

#Believe Quotes #Book Quotes #Reading Quotes

“I just figured, "If I can do theater, agents will find their way."”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“He was tall, one of the tallest men she had ever seen. Dressed in jeans, boots and a cotton shirt. Thick black hair grew rakishly long, falling over the collar of his shirt. Intense brown eyes, almost the color of amber, surveyed the diner slowly before coming back to her. Electricity sizzled in the air then, as though invisible currents connected them, forcing her to recognize him on a primitive level. Not that she wouldnâ€™t take notice anyway. He was power, strength, and so incredibly male that her breath caught at the sight of him.”

Source : Lora Leigh (2018). “Elizabeth's Wolf”, p.34, Penguin
“We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we didn't have any of that. We started with a humble log house, milk cow, garden-raised our own food, killed a hog every year in the fall, and had the meat hanging up in the smokehouse - that was our childhood, me and ol' Si.”
“Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I had Ice Cube on my first album, "Bunker," and then I did a remix for Snoop Dogg. I've worked with Grandmaster Flash and Pharrell. It's a different work process and there's a different take with how you produce [hip-hop].”

Source : Source: www.etonline.com
“I want to look into a mirror that will love my own reflection harder than I hate myself.”
“Be praised, My Lord, through Sister Water; she is very useful, and humble, and precious, and pure.”
“I have ballet class every other day for two hours. And for "Six Feet Under", last week there was a sequence where I had to do a whole choreographed dance number, so I had four hours of dance practice every day.”

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