Sharon M. Draper Quotes

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• Thoughts need words. Words need a voice.
• Without the local library in my neighborhood, I don’t think I would have grown up to be a writer or a teacher.
• She talked to me like I was just like any other student, not a kid in a wheelchair.
• It can connect us to memories. It can influence our mood and our responses to problems we might face.
• Teachers must be celebrated for moving civilization from ignorance to enlightenment, from apathy to responsibility.
• Do not let anyone stop you from succeding
• But I'll always love you, and I'll always miss you and I'll never forget that It's okay to put dragons in the jungle and tears…
• I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a dreamer.
• Go ahead and cry, Andy. Don't be afraid of those tears. Sometimes they help to wash the soul clean.
• Words. I'm surrounding by thousands of words. Maybe millions...Deep within me, words pile up in huge drifts. Mountains of phrases and sentences and connected ideas.…
• Do you know what courage is? I guess you don't. Do you know that the courage it took at that moment - to actually blow…
• One series of notes, high and delicate, sang of a sweet moonlight kiss gone sour; another line of music rippled with regret over opportunities forever…
• Words have always swirled around me like snowflakes-each one delicate and different, each one melting untouched in my hands.
• [A] person is so much more than the name of a diagnosis on a chart.
• What would you do if you could fly?" Mrs. V asks as she glances from the bird to me. "Is that on the quiz?" I…
• I believe in me. And my family does. And Mrs. V. It's the rest of the world I'm not so sure of.
• By the way, there is nothing cute about a pink wheelchair. Pink doesn't change a thing.

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