The Supreme Court has insulted you over and over again, Lord. They've taken your Bible away from the schools. They've forbidden little children to pray. They've taken the knowledge of God as best they can, and organizations have come into court to take the knowledge of God out of the public square of America.

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

Mark Twain

Well, I'm certainly not Ragnor Fell the exotic dancer.

Cassandra Clare

The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.

Marcus Garvey

Youth is wasted on the young.

George Bernard Shaw

Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence -- a lot passes you by -- simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.

Anita Brookner

When there is oppression, the only self-respecting thing is to rise and say this shall cease today, because my right is justice. If you are stronger, you have to help the weaker boy or girl both in play and in the work.

Sarojini Naidu

I read On the Road in maybe 1959. It changed my life like it changed everyone else's.

Bob Dylan

I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man.... Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist.

Ernest Hemingway

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

Henry David Thoreau

Time discovers truth.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

Voltaire

The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost.

Seamus Heaney