“The last thing Pa and Big Ma wanted to hear was how we made a grand Negro spectacle of ourselves thirty thousand feet up in the air around all these white people.” — Rita Williams-Garcia Copy Share Image
“Dear Delphine, When you are older I want you to find Chinua Achebe. I want you to read Things Fall Apart. Don't be hardheaded and try to read this book now. Don't be hardheaded, Delphine. You are the smart one, but you are not ready. You can read all its words. Even the African words. But you will not know… — Rita Williams-Garcia Copy Share
“I didn’t want to say Big Ma was right. Cecile was no kind of mother. Cecile didn’t want us. Cecile was crazy. I didn’t… — Rita Williams-Garcia Copy Share Image
We all have our la-la-la song. The thing we do when the world isn't singing a nice tune to us. We sing our own… — Rita Williams-Garcia Copy Share Image
“Today we're going to be like the earth, spinning around and affecting many.” — Rita Williams-Garcia Copy Share Image
I'm very objective about what I want to have happen to my protagonists and where that has to come from. On one hand, it does help me that I had a mother who might have taken the last dollar and bought a pack of cigarettes or something, but I also had a mother who exposed me to art, music, other… — Rita Williams-Garcia Copy Share
“I had a lot of those memories clicking before me like projector slides in the dark. Lots of pictures, smells and sounds flashing in… — Rita Williams-Garcia Copy Share Image
“That was how I knew Sister Mukumbo was a real teacher, aside from her welcoming smile and her blackboard penmanship. She asked a teacher's… — Rita Williams-Garcia Copy Share Image
One of the great things about being a grandparent is you get to redo what you didn't or couldn't do as a parent. Oftentimes… — Rita Williams-Garcia Copy Share Image
Saying "please" without saying it to someone you don't want to say "please" to in the first place tops the list of hard. — Rita Williams-Garcia Copy Share Image
“You don't know something bothers you until you no longer have to do it. Suddenly you're both angry and glad. Angry you did it… — Rita Williams-Garcia Copy Share Image
