Black people Quote by M.K. Asante

Now I see why reading was illegal for black people during slavery. I discover that I think in words. The more words I know,…

— M. K. Asante

“You think there’s no detriment in a slave learning to read? There are sad truths in our world, and one is that slaves who…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom. But reading is still the path.”

— Carl Sagan

“Books allow a person to think outside of the box. They allow reflections and contemplation. So read them while thinking is still legal.”

— Love The Stacks Bookstore

“Literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. But there are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom. But reading is still…

— Carl Sagan

“Not a thousand years ago, it was illegal to teach a slave to read. Not a thousand years ago, the Supreme Court decided that…

— James Baldwin

“Read the right books and we can be as wild and worry-free as we've ever wanted to be. No law can stop us reading.”

— Carla H. Krueger

“Reading was a kind of freedom, the only one I could give”

— Sue Monk Kidd

“if you think about it, reading is just looking at words”

— Cookiecrumb

“I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew right there, in prison, that reading had changed forever…

— Malcolm X

“The worst thing to tell a free people in a country that's still mostly free is that they are not allowed to read something.”

— Michael Moore

“Now as always in our history, reading is among our greatest freedoms”

— The Freedom to Read Statement