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Carmen Agra Deedy is an author of children’s literature, storyteller and radio contributor.

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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 and ding and ring, where you’ve got mail and you’ve got messages, when I enter a library, I feel that I am still entering a temple.

Beep, Entering, Ineluctably, Library, Temple, World

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

World, Perceive, Good In The World, Good, Endured

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

Powerful, People, Generosity, Mighty, Offer

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 great deal by just being quiet and listening.

Daughter, Grew, Mother, School, Volunteer

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

Conflagration, Mice, Mouse, Spark, Sparks, Thousand

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, prayer doesnt hurt, either.

Hurt, Looms, Prayer, Reckoning, Years

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 very important to us now.

Loss, Important, Remember, Tales, Constant

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