Stephanie Stokes Oliver > Quotes

“It's hard to believe that the relaxing, recreational endeavor of reading a good book that so many of us savor and take for granted was, for more than two hundred years, not only illegal for most African Americans enslaved in many states of the South, but also punishable by death.”
― Stephanie Stokes Oliver, Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading and Writing