“I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of the hunger for life that gnaws in us all.”
― Black Boy
― Black Boy
“Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”
― So You Want to Be a Wizard
― So You Want to Be a Wizard
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
― To Kill a Mockingbird
― To Kill a Mockingbird
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
― All Men Are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
― All Men Are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
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