Firsts Quote by Henry Louis Gates

I've always measured a good day as one where I can read, write, and run.

— Maggie Rogers

There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.

— Matt Taibbi

It was unlawful, as well as unsafe, to teach a slave to read.

— Frederick Douglass

If you can't read and write you can't think. Your thoughts are dispersed if you don't know how to read and write. You've got…

— Ray Bradbury

Just a little every day That's the way Children learn to read and write Bit by bit and mite by mite.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The best training is to read and write, no matter what. Don't live with a lover or roommate who doesn't respect your work. Don't…

— Grace Paley

“I like to read and write because it is the ONLY thing that takes my mind off of the real world and my spinning…

— Shandy L. Kurth

I can read and write. I went to school for six years. I just couldn't continue.

— Angel Cabrera

You and I who read and write books have very little effect upon language. We may think about it, write about it, and read…

— Charlton Laird

The difference between people who can read and write and those who can't is just absolutely astronomical.

— Juan Enriquez

To read and write is a paradise.

— Carlos Fuentes

The mistake that is made always runs the other way. Because the plain people are able to speak and understand, and even, in many…

— H. L. Mencken