Julius Lester Quotes
Top 21 wise famous quotes and sayings by Julius Lester
Goodness was not a trait you acquired; it was a value you practiced when you were on the verge of doing evil. 
How can I love you if I don't know what hurts you? 
Being a failure at living your own life as best as you can is better than being a success living the life somebody else says you should live. 
The young accept the extraordinary as normal because they do not compare their lives with those of others when everyone is like them. 
Often, the human animal dresses terror in rage, and expresses both in a way unlike either. 
Some wounds go so deep that you don't even feel them until months, maybe years, later. 
There was an end to weeping. Mourning, however, ebbed and surged but never ceased flowing. 
We remember with our emotions. The things that were important in our emotional life, that's what we remember. 
To give good hugs you have to have some soft places.- Jeremy Richards
Silence was not the absence of sound but was itself a sound that could be loud or soft, soothing or disturbing, complex or simple. 
The object of learning was not to build a better mousetrap but to ask a better question.