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d726179	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 and try to read this book now. Don't be hardheaded, Delphine. You are the smart one, but you are not ready. You can read all its words. Even the African words. But you will not know what Achebe is saying. It is a bad thing to bite into a hard fruit with little teeth. You will say bad things about the fruit when the ..	Rita Williams-Garcia
f2594a7	If you knew what I knew, seen what I've seen, you wouldn't be so quick to pull the plow.	Rita Williams-Garcia
269fd32	That was how I knew Sister Mukumbu was a real teacher, aside from her welcoming smile and her blackboard penmanship. She asked a teacher's type of question. The kind that says: Join in.	Rita Williams-Garcia
e0c96ed	Mission Impossible	Rita Williams-Garcia
2ab3e79	I remember a time when smoke filled the house. Not coughing smoke but smoke from a woman's smooth-voiced singing, with piano, bass, and drums. All together these sounds made smoke. Uncle Darnell would say, "You can't remember that. You were two. Three, maybe." But I do. I still see, hear, and feel bits and flashes. The sounds of musical smoke."	Rita Williams-Garcia
b2b6ddc	Star Trek.	Rita Williams-Garcia
a7f8f8f	Cecile	Rita Williams-Garcia
ccd8043	Heckle and Jeckle again	Rita Williams-Garcia
df0799b	Cecile carried on a full conversation, on and on	Rita Williams-Garcia
d147733	There was also one Anthony, whose mama could spell, and one Antnee, whose mama couldn't. It	Rita Williams-Garcia
e8a8f25	P.S. Be eleven.	Rita Williams-Garcia
60745a6	Although I didn't hear the door swing	Rita Williams-Garcia
2301cbf	I)f you prayed for the miracle you'd sell your most treasured possession for, you don't care about anything else but waiting on that miracle.	Rita Williams-Garcia
1e81cda	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 have to.	Rita Williams-Garcia
fd1dcba	Crazy.	Rita Williams-Garcia
f7e4c77	the Blue Nile. I could see the envelope sinking, sinking...but	Rita Williams-Garcia
4885339	Blue Nile. I could see the envelope sinking, sinking...but	Rita Williams-Garcia
c958917	Every good-bye ain't gone.	Rita Williams-Garcia
7296777	The Soul Brothers and Sister Lou and The Outsiders	Rita Williams-Garcia

d726179

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 and try to read this book now. Don't be hardheaded, Delphine. You are the smart one, but you are not ready. You can read all its words. Even the African words. But you will not know what Achebe is saying. It is a bad thing to bite into a hard fruit with little teeth. You will say bad things about the fruit when the ..

Rita Williams-Garcia

f2594a7

If you knew what I knew, seen what I've seen, you wouldn't be so quick to pull the plow.

Rita Williams-Garcia

269fd32

That was how I knew Sister Mukumbu was a real teacher, aside from her welcoming smile and her blackboard penmanship. She asked a teacher's type of question. The kind that says: Join in.

Rita Williams-Garcia

e0c96ed

Mission Impossible

Rita Williams-Garcia

2ab3e79

I remember a time when smoke filled the house. Not coughing smoke but smoke from a woman's smooth-voiced singing, with piano, bass, and drums. All together these sounds made smoke. Uncle Darnell would say, "You can't remember that. You were two. Three, maybe." But I do. I still see, hear, and feel bits and flashes. The sounds of musical smoke."