African-american-authors Quote by John Robert Lewis

“I have loved this disaster of a library since I was old enough to read.”

— Eleanor Brown

“Libraries are about books. Books have no color. And they don't care who reads them.”

— Augusta Scattergood

“Something about the beauty of the library and how many books there were made me feel really eager to read, and I couldn't wait…

— Francine Prose

“Wherever I live, the library becomes my second home. Walking through the doors, I know that there are books calling to me that will…

— Wendy Jones

“As a boy I was saved from a life of ignorance by my little hometown library. As a college student I was educated in…

— James Michener

“I love libraries. I love books. There is something sacred, I think, about a great library because it represents the preservation of the wisdom,…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

“The library was one of the few places approved by my mother. I must have read almost every book in that place, living a…

— Skye Warren

“I see you in the library. The way you love the books.”

— Ann Hood

“All my life, the library has always been one of my favorite places to go. (Larry Brown: A Writer's Life by Jean W. Cash)”

— Larry Brown

“I really didn't realize the librarians were, you know, such a dangerous group. They are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the…

— Michael Moore

“But I loved the library simply because it was a library. I love libraries. I like reading, but I love libraries. Being surrounded by…

— Emily Wing Smith

“The library sucked up sound like a vacuum. All of those thousands and thousands of unread books sucking up secrets for the last hundred…

— Michael Sears