Kekla Magoon Quotes

• The river moves, but it follows a path. When it tires of one journey, it rubs through some rock to forge a new way. Hard work, but that's its nature.

  Kekla Magoon

  Moving, Hard Work, Journey

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• You're only responsible for your own actions. You can't control how someone else reacts to what you do. You made a choice. Stand by it.

  Kekla Magoon

  Choices, Action, Responsible

  Kekla Magoon (2009). “The Rock and the River”, p.210, Simon and Schuster

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• We need heroes of color in all different genres. It's also valuable for white readers to be able to meet people in books that are different than themselves. That can be a way of expanding their minds and experiences.

  Kekla Magoon

  Hero, Book, White

  Fuente: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The river is motion, turmoil, rage. As the river flows, it wonders what it would be like to be so still, to take a breath, to rest. But the rock will always wonder what lies around the bend in the stream.

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  Lying, Rocks, Rivers

  Kekla Magoon (2009). “The Rock and the River”, p.282, Simon and Schuster

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• We need a whole bunch of books about people of color, kids on the spectrum, etc. It's strange that we have a population of school children that is majority nonwhite but their books are majority white.

  Kekla Magoon

  Niños, Libro, Escuela

  Fuente: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Malcolm X finally became the person he was meant and raised to be. He fought against the forces of racism to return to that. Malcolm wanted to inspire other people to find their own strength.

  Kekla Magoon

  Racism, People, Inspire

  Fuente: www.teachingbooks.net

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