Redaction Quotes

“I want all the books on the shelves.

I want the books with dinosaur words like nigger that show the skeletons in our national closet. I want books with the word cunt as well as the word kike. Words don't scare me. Suppressing them does.”
― E.L. Konigsburg, Talk, Talk : A Children's Book Author Speaks to Grown-Ups

“Once upon a time there was war, and starvation, and death. Once upon a time we would kill our brothers and sisters, fearing for our own lives. Once upon a time the characters turned from us, and we wept. Now we do not war, nor do we fear, nor do we weep. We Redact.”
― F. D. Lee, The Fairy's Tale