Woodson, who won for “Brown Girl Dreaming,” her memoir in verse of growing up African-American in the nineteen-sixties and seventies, said, “It’s so important that we talk to our old people before they become ancestors, and get their stories.” 

I have framed those words and placed them above my desk while I work on Annotated African American Folktales.

And here’s Ursula LeGuin

 http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014…

I was a fan of Lemony Snicket until I watched this:

 http://gawker.com/lemony-snicket-makes-s…