Julius Lester Quotes
A good teacher is one who helps you become who you feel yourself to be. A good teacher is also one who says something that you won't understand until 10 years later.
Being a failure at living your own life as best as you can is better than being a success living the life somebody else says you should live.
Dying ain't important. Everyone does that. What's important is how well you do your living.
To write and not tell the truth? That would be death for any writer. But more, it would be death to the imagination. And if the imagination dies, what would happen to the souls of children?
The failure of modern living is the failure of the imagination...Literature is the royal road that enables us to enter the realm of the imagination.
Freeform radio is an art form. The airwaves are the empty canvas, the producer is the artist, and the sound is the paint.
We remember with our emotions. The things that were important in our emotional life, that's what we remember.
...part of the mind's job was to cast doubt on what the heart knew to be true, and the heart, because it had no words, often lost the argument
It ain't how long you know somebody that means anything. It's what that person mean to you in your heart.
History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the heart and we repeat history until we are able to make another's pain in the heart our own.
The young accept the extraordinary as normal because they do not compare their lives with those of others when everyone is like them.
Silence was not the absence of sound but was itself a sound that could be loud or soft, soothing or disturbing, complex or simple.
Often, the human animal dresses terror in rage, and expresses both in a way unlike either.
... the object of learning was not to build a better mousetrap but to ask a better question.
Some wounds go so deep that you don't even feel them until months, maybe years, later.
Goodness was not a trait you acquired; it was a value you practiced when you were on the verge of doing evil.
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 left. The love didn't. —Jenna Richards
Faith is not something that one has; faith is something that one practices at the very moment in your life when you really don't believe anything, and you're in the worst kind of despair.
There was an end to weeping. Mourning, however, ebbed and surged but never ceased flowing.
He took the box but did not avail himself of a tissue. She understood. Sometimes it was comforting to feel the wetness of grief's tears on your face.