4 Quotes & Sayings By Rita Williamsgarcia

Rita is an award-winning author, actress, educator, and songwriter. She is known for her popular middle-grade novels which explore the realities of life with disabilities. Rita's books have won numerous awards including the Golden Kite Award, the Coretta Scott King Award, Newbery Honor Book, and Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book. She teaches in the graduate writing program at Wellesley College Read more

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I pressed and I prayed. It was only right that pressing went with prayer. That and being sorry. Every wrinkle was a patch of sorry to be smoothed and flattened. Rita WilliamsGarcia
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It was a strange, wonderful feeling. To discover eyes upon you when you expected no one to notice you at all. Rita WilliamsGarcia
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The last thing Pa and Big Ma wanted to hear was how we made a grand Negro spectacle of ourselves thirty thousand feet up in the air around all these white people. Rita WilliamsGarcia