Oliver has a vibrant, evocative story to tell.
~Athens Banner-Herald
Captures of personal tumult of coming-of-age in the 1960s with the life-changing movements for civil and women's rights.
~Booklist
An intimate and captivating portrait of an African-American, female, Floridian, baby-boomer's life.
~Florida Forum
A complex and multi-layered story, with photographs and art, of coming of age in the Jim Crow South after the Second World War.
~Florida Historical Quarterly
This charming little book is the memoir of Kitty Oliver, one of the first African-American students to attend the desegregated University of Florida in 1965.
~Florida Today
Chronicles the strains of Oliver's transition from the Jim Crow South to desegregation, but her memoir is also an up-beat journal of self-discovery.
~Jacksonville Free Press
Oliver is a veteran South Florida journalist, and her story, told without rancor, speaks directly to the black female experience of her generation.
~Johnson City Press
A thinking woman's memoir of a journey with many side trips from a Black girl's childhood in segregated Jacksonville, Florida, through a coming-of-age reinvention of her self as 'a product of the civil rights movement, of integration, of all the promises it held' and back to her origins as an archaeologist of her own past.... Written with such poetic sensitivity, with such attention to sensory detail and the cadences of language, that the reader is likely to forget that this delightful field trip is also meant to be educational.
~Judith Ortiz Cofer
A rich, 'real' reading—part travelogue, part memoir—tender and thoughtful both. This is a rare and generous memorial of a black girl and the black south.
~Karla Holloway
A beautifully written memoir.... filled with rich prose. Oliver, one of 35 African Americans to integrate the University of Florida in 1965, shares her college experiences in Gainesville, traces her Gullah roots in South Carolina, and offers lively stories of her family—all enhanced by large doses of Southern folktales, food, and music.
~Library Journal
Multicolored Memories is funny and the language is entertaining, but more than that, it is real.... A story of a woman's self-discovery and her ability to overcome the obstacles that come from living in integrated America.
~Louisville Defender
Oliver, a self-styled 'maverick,' grapples with the complexities of assimilating into mainstream culture.
~Publishers Weekly
This is an enlightening story for all ages—and as good as Maya Angelou's.
~Rose Shell Reviews