Pura Belpré

“[S]torytelling is a living art, and each teller embellishes, polishes and recreates as she goes along without losing the thematic value.”

“I searched for some of the folktales I had heard at home. There was not even one. A sudden feeling of loss rose within me.”

“To appreciate the present, one must have a knowledge of the past…to know where we go, we must know from where we came…”