Virginia Hamilton Quotes

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.

To leave a place, you'd best leave everything behind; all your possessions, including memory. Traveling's not as easy as it's made out to be.

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

The past moves me and with me, although I remove myself from it. Its light often shines on this night traveler: and when it does, I scribble it down. Whatever pleasure is in it I need pass on. That's happiness. That is who I am.

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.

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.