"Sometimes when I visit schools, kids will interview me for the school newspaper. They ask me questions and my answers tend to go on and on, and they try to write down everything I'm saying as quickly as they can. And one day, a kid holds up her hand and said, 'Do you think you could just answer 'yes' or 'no?' Aren't kids wonderful?"

-- Patricia Reilly Giff

#School Quotes #Kids Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.”
“Seeking the ideal has a long history, it produces many saints but few paradigm changes.”
“Our great country is rich and abundant in so many ways. It is totally unacceptable to me that we have children and families going hungry!”
“I have a great memory.”
“I've a full-length triple-panel mirror in which I can see every possible angle, and I spend quite a lot of time in front of it.”
“I always tried to be open-minded, but not so open-minded that my brains would fall out. As G. K. Chesterton says, "The purpose of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to close it again on something solid." I opened my mind, and I finally closed it on the most solid reality I had ever experienced. On December 19, 1959, at 8:30PM, during my second year at the university, I became a Christian.”
“For many businesses, the fear behind their social media reluctance isn't just fear of failure but of blame and accountability - both individual and collective.”
“The most fundamental truth to be told in any art form, as far as Blacks are concerned, is that America is killing us.”

Source : Sonia Sanchez (2010). “I’m Black When I’m Singing, I’m Blue When I Ain’t and Other Plays”, p.16, Duke University Press

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