"His house to me was a child was a heart of happiness. If there is a wonder childhood possesses which makes it forever superior to what shall come after, it is the happy and uncritical love of whatever..."
- Elizabeth Spencer
"He read it over twenty times and though the darkness that sang on held steady about him, the unhurried words fell bright through his mind, going down golden through deep water, and when one passed ano..."
"She was always saying things like that but I let her be my best friend anyway."
- Ellen Gilchrist
"But the book! The siren song of the book!"
- Ellen Douglas
"I had never read a book written by an African-American. I didn't know that black people could write books. I didn't know that blacks had done any great things. I was always conscious of my inferiority..."
- Endesha Ida Mae Holland
"It was spring when it happened and the schoolroom windows were open all day long, and every afternoon after Billy left we had milk from little waxy cartons and Mrs. Jansma would read us chapters from ..."
"Libraries are about books. Books have no color. And they don't care who reads them."
- Augusta Scattergood
"We know You love us. We love You, too. I mean, six, seven thousand years from now . . . won't make no difference, will it? Everybody gonna be so mixed up by then that far in the future that they all g..."
- Larry Brown
"Cuddle up. Rain always stops. It always stops. It always does. -The Brown Cape"
"We were running all over the front lawn and under the rainspouts, barefooted, in our underpants, with the rain pelting down, straight cold gray rain of Delta summers, wonderful rain. -Mexico"