Miracles Quote by Rita Williams-Garcia

“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

“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

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

“Blue Nile. I could see the envelope sinking, sinking…but”

— Rita Williams-Garcia

“Today we're going to be like the earth, spinning around and affecting many.”

— Rita Williams-Garcia

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

“Cecile carried on a full conversation, on and on”

— Rita Williams-Garcia

“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

“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

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

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

“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