Kwame Alexander quotes
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“You can't have a dream come true if you don't have a dream. You can't write a book if you don't write.”
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“That’s all you really hope for from a book – that it’s going to resonate with young people and empower them in some way. I believe poetry can get kids reading.”
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“There are places and spaces for black writers to write about race as a central thing. It's important. We're still dealing with the remnants of slavery. We're still dealing with racism on a daily basis. For me, I choose to write books about black people where we are normal. I was raised to believe that I deserve to be in a room just like anybody else. I try to write books like that.”
-- Kwame AlexanderSource : Source: www.motherjones.com
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“We expect kids to go straight from Shel Silverstein to William Shakespeare. There needs to be a bridge of relatable, fun, rhythmic verse that gets kids to cross over, so to speak, so they can appreciate Mary Oliver and Naomi Shihab Nye and Langston Hughes.”
-- Kwame AlexanderSource : Source: www.motherjones.com
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“If your father, who is known for carrying around a belt, told you to read a book, you went and did it. I've never spanked my kid - I think because in my household you were afraid. If you did something wrong and got caught, you were getting spanked.”
-- Kwame AlexanderSource : Source: www.motherjones.com
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“That’s all you really hope for from a book – that it’s going to resonate with young people and empower them in some way. I believe poetry can get kids reading.”
-- Kwame AlexanderSource : "Kwame Alexander Q&A: Poetry Provides Possibilities". Interview with Marissa Wasseluk, firstbook.org. March 10, 2015.
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“It's every actor's dream to work in a hit show on Broadway and also shoot a television show.”
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“Dream is not that which you see while sleeping it is something that does not let you sleep.”
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Source : A. E. Hotchner (2009). “Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir”, p.14, Da Capo Press
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