“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 have to.” — 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… — Rita Williams-Garcia Copy Share Image
“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… — Rita Williams-Garcia Copy Share Image
“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
“We're trying to break yokes. You're trying to make one for yourself.” — Rita Williams-Garcia Copy Share Image
“It was a strange, wonderful feeling. To discover eyes upon you when you expected no one to notice you at all.” — Rita Williams-Garcia Copy Share Image
“Cecile made it sound like it was no big deal. "I've been fighting for freedom all my life." But she wasn't talking about protest… — Rita Williams-Garcia Copy Share Image
