3 Quotes & Sayings By Felicia Johnson

Felicia Johnson is a writer, poet, activist, and college professor. She is the author of the award-winning children's books Grio Goes to School, Rude Awakenings, and The New Voices Anthology for Teen Girls. She has written for Essence magazine, Ebony magazine, Parenting magazine, The Washington Post, The Washington Monthly, Ebony.com, CNN.com and more. Felicia was named one of the Top 10 African-American Bloggers by Black Enterprise magazine in 2008 and in 2011 she was named one of the Top 100 African American Women by Essence magazine Read more

She is also an accomplished musician who has performed nationally with artists such as Rakim and Common. Her debut album "Out of Tha Blue" was nominated for a BET Hip Hop Award in 2007.

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Speak up and speak clearly. I want to hear what you have to say because it matters. Let's listen to each other and respect one another's opinions. Although, they may be different, wisdom allows us to be responsible for our own feelings and actions. Felicia Johnson
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I guess you can call me "old fashioned". I prefer the book with the pages that you can actually turn. Sure, I may have to lick the tip of my fingers so that the pages don't stick together when I'm enraptured in a story that I can't wait to get to the next page. But nothing beats the sound that an actual, physical book makes when you first crack it open or the smell of new, fresh printed words on the creamy white paper of a page turner. . Felicia Johnson