I began telling stories as a volunteer in my daughters' school. But I grew up hearing stories from Cuban and Southern storytellers, and I learned a g…

- Carmen Agra Deedy

There are constant cycles in history. There is loss, but it is always followed by regeneration. The tales of our elders who remember such cycles are …

- Carmen Agra Deedy

Whatever we perceive as good in the world has always endured, and it always will.

- Carmen Agra Deedy

I have been ineluctably drawn to libraries ever since I entered that sanctum sanctorum. It was a place of quietude. In a world where things go beep a…

- Carmen Agra Deedy

If one mouse is a spark...then ten thousand are a conflagration.

- Carmen Agra Deedy

I find that it takes a lot of years of living, and many more of reckoning, to come up with one worthwhile paragraph. And when a deadline looms, praye…

- Carmen Agra Deedy

Because there is no nation so powerful it cannot be wounded, nor a people so small they cannot offer mighty comfort.

- Carmen Agra Deedy