Spingarn Award Quotes

#1. The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.

Margaret Mead

#2. I'm 38 and I'm single and I'm having my most intense and gratifying relationship with a dog. But we all learn about love in different ways, and this way happens to be mine.

Caroline Knapp

#3. Irony is the word I forget the meaning of immediately after I look it up, but I kind of feel like I live in a constant state of it.

Maureen Johnson

#4. Who ever planted an iroko tree - the greatest tree in the forest? You may collect all the iroko seeds in the world, open the soil and put them there. It will be in vain. The great tree chooses where to grow and we find it there, so it is with greatness in men.

Chinua Achebe

#5. In little pockets of conversation, old men were telling stories of ancient floods. Women were talking of about how much rain there'd been in other towns
Paragould, Lepanto, and Manila.

John Grisham

#6. To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

Lord Byron

#7. I personally always hated Pop art.

Peggy Guggenheim

#8. Countering him. The call does happen, a decision is made, and by evening I'm suited up in my Mockingjay outfit, with my bow slung over my shoulder and an earpiece that connects

Suzanne Collins

#9. For me, appropriate policy means that we continue to reduce accommodation and return to a neutral federal funds rate

Michael H. Moskow