Official site of children's book author, Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow
WELCOME
I am Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow, a children’s book author who aspires to be a griot.
Here are some quotes that inspire my stories (I hope they inspire yours too)…
“I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.” -Alice Walker
“I write for young girls of color, for girls who don’t even exist yet, so that there is something there for them when they arrive. I can only change how they live, not how they think.” -Ntozake Shange
“If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.”- Toni Morrison
“You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn’t do anything to the object of its displeasure. So use that anger. You write it. You paint it. You dance it. You march it. You vote it. You do everything about it. You talk it. Never stop talking it.”- Maya Angelou
“Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower, steel, stitch, and cloud and clout, and drumbeats in the air.” – Gwendolyn Brooks
“We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings.” – Maya Angelou
Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow 