We expect kids to go straight from Shel Silverstein to William Shakespeare. There needs to be a bridge of relatable, fun, rhythmic verse that gets ki…

- Kwame Alexander

If your father, who is known for carrying around a belt, told you to read a book, you went and did it. I've never spanked my kid - I think because in…

- Kwame Alexander

You can't have a dream come true if you don't have a dream. You can't write a book if you don't write.

- Kwame Alexander

There are places and spaces for black writers to write about race as a central thing. It's important. We're still dealing with the remnants of slaver…

- Kwame Alexander

That’s all you really hope for from a book – that it’s going to resonate with young people and empower them in some way. I believe poetry can get ki…

- Kwame Alexander