"If we knew how to find the lost, we would know how to rediscover the parts of our mindsleft behindin battle."
- Margarita Engle
"I don't understand the whole thrilling verse, but I love the way poetry turns ordinary words into winged things that rise up and soar!"
"I would have run awayInto the forestTo live in a nestMade of dreamsAnd green leaves"
"Slavery all day,and then, suddenly, by nightfall- freedom!"
"Night simply drapes itself over the dayAs if someone had lowered a curtain.The sky glitters and moves,Filled with shooting stars and fireflies."
"Without even trying to be a teacher, Fredrika is teaching us,Showing us how to see things in new waysInstead of always thinkingThe same old thoughtsThat have been passed along by strangersDay after da..."
"The child tells me her grandmothershowed her how to cure sadness by sucking the juice of an orange, while standing on a beach.Toss the peels onto a wave.Watch the sadness float away."
"There is no place more lonelyThan a rich man's home."
"Do I have to admit that I'm half Cuban and half American,or should I go even further, and explainthat Dad's parents were born in the Ukraine,part of Soviet Russia?Or am I just entirely American,all th..."
"Hatred must be a hard thing to learn."