Quotes by : Julius Lester

The young accept the extraordinary as normal because they do not compare their lives with those of others....

... the object of learning was not to build a better mousetrap but to ask a better question.

There was an end to weeping. Mourning, however, ebbed and surged but never ceased flowing.

Often, the human animal dresses terror in rage, and expresses both in a way unlike either.

How can I love you if I don't know what hurts you?

History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the heart and we repeat history until....

Its hardness and solidity had been an odd kind of comfort. Do not wish for anything. Be and endure. The....

He took the box but did not avail himself of a tissue. She understood. Sometimes it was comforting to....

Silence was not the absence of sound but was itself a sound that could be loud or soft, soothing or disturbing,....

Goodness was not a trait you acquired it was a value you practiced when you were on the verge of doing....