Julius Lester

A good teacher is one who helps you become who you feel yourself to be. A good teacher is also one who…

— Julius Lester

“Stagolee was, undoubtedly and without question, the baddest nigger that ever lived. Stagolee was so bad that the flies wouldn't even fly…

— Julius Lester

But there are times when a tree can no longer withstand the pain inflicted on it, and the wind will take pity…

— Julius Lester

“To give good hugs you have to have some soft places. —Jeremy Richards”

— Julius Lester

“Perhaps one of the writer's tasks is to weave himself into others' pain.”

— Julius Lester

How can I love you if I don't know what hurts you?

— Julius Lester

But I want you around even when I don't need you. —Jeremy Richards

— Julius Lester

“Just because you're bron to someone, it doesn't mean you belong to them.”

— Julius Lester

Being a failure at living your own life as best as you can is better than being a success living the life…

— Julius Lester

I write because the lives of all of us are stories. If enough of those stories are told, then perhaps we will…

— Julius Lester

Books, and especially fiction, do not proceed from ideas. They are born from feelings

— Julius Lester

Dying ain't important. Everyone does that. What's important is how well you do your living.

— Julius Lester

When I read students’ attempts at creative writing it is obvious immediately that most of them have not read much or widely.…

— Julius Lester

Silence was not the absence of sound but was itself a sound that could be loud or soft, soothing or disturbing, complex…

— Julius Lester

If I canot know your name, may I light a lamp so I can see your face?' If you sould ever see…

— Julius Lester

Some wounds go so deep that you don't even feel them until months, maybe years, later.

— Julius Lester

Just because she's dead it doesn't mean I stopped loving her or that she stopped loving me. It's just her body that…

— Julius Lester

“....the racial divides in the United States will not be overcome until lynchings of all kinds are as painful to nonblacks as…

— Julius Lester

The young accept the extraordinary as normal because they do not compare their lives with those of others when everyone is like…

— Julius Lester

To write and not tell the truth? That would be death for any writer. But more, it would be death to the…

— Julius Lester

“He took the box but did not avail himself of a tissue. She understood. Sometimes it was comforting to feel the wetness…

— Julius Lester

Faith is not something that one has; faith is something that one practices at the very moment in your life when you…

— Julius Lester

I'm tired of thinking and I'm really tired of Feeling. —Jenna Richards

— Julius Lester

“There was an end to weeping. Mourning, however, ebbed and surged but never ceased flowing.”

— Julius Lester

Freeform radio is an art form. The airwaves are the empty canvas, the producer is the artist, and the sound is the…

— Julius Lester