Encyclopedias Quotes

“Cos if it's encyclopedias we've got enough, like, information... and if it's God, you've got the wrong house.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

“Sandra L. West and Aberjhani have compiled an encyclopedia that makes an important contribution to our need to know more about one of modern America’s truly significant artistic and cultural movements. It helps us to acknowledge the complexity of African American life at a time when the nation’s culture was taking on a recognizable shape, when race was becoming less of a crushing burden and more of a challenge to progressive people and their ideals, and when cities and their inhabitants symbolized the end of the past and the seductiveness of the new.”
― Clement Alexander Price, Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance

“He started reading. He jumped from volume to volume, understanding only part of what he was reading, but understanding enough to follow another lead and then another. It was exactly like following hyperlinks, only slower, and with more lifting.”
― Michael Grant, Gone

“I somehow graduated 90s pre-Internet high school and got into college with just a set of flea market 50s encyclopedias at home.”
― Damon Thomas, Some Books Are Not For Sale