Quotes from Virginia Hamilton

Libraries never let us forget who we are, for their worth stands by the knowledge they keep and save for us.

You always feel you are not deserving. People who are successful at what they do know what kind of work goes with it, so they are surprised at the praise.

The books from which [children] learn must reflect movement and change and all of the infinite possibilities of minds at liberty.

I call myself a wordkeeper, or a keeper of words. I enjoy words and looking at them on all sides… Words are magnificent… They form rhythms of living in meaningful prose… It is the force of my desire, my wish to make myself understood, that powers these words.

Mr. Small had to drag his son along. Thomas gaped at the stalactites, fearful that one might fall on him. He was terrified of the stalagmites that they had to walk through.

Stalagmite: a calcium carbonate deposit shaped like an icicle and formed by the dripping of percolating calcareous water … Stalagmite: dripping of percolating calcareous …

The meaning of the Street in all ways and at all times is the need for sharing life with others and the search for community.