Black Quote by M. K. Asante

Reading develops cognitive skills. It trains our minds to think critically and to question what you are told. This is why dictators censor or…

— Karin Slaughter

Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I think the right to read, is one of our inherent rights, and I think that people in America today are intelligent enough to…

— Bennett Cerf

It is certain that I cannot always distinguish my own thoughts from those I read, because what I read becomes the very substance and…

— Helen Keller

“For most people read not with their minds, but with their emotions and prejudices. They read into or read out of a piece of…

— Sydney J. Harris

I think people make certain assumptions about what they're interested in reading or what others would be interested in reading, and when they think…

— Jesmyn Ward

I think reading is part of the birthright of the human being

— LeVar Burton

Like writing, reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

— John Locke

I had brainwashed myself into saying things like, 'If people don't like what I'm writing then they shouldn't read it.'

— Perez Hilton

Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of one's own.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Reading is an act of civilization; it's one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind…

— Ben Okri