"Read, Read, and then Read some more. Always Read. Find the voices that speak most to YOU. This is your pleasure and blessing, as well as responsibility!"

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Source : Interview with Rachel Barenblat, www.pifmagazine.com. August 1999.

Naomi Shihab Nye

#Book Quotes #Reading Quotes #Responsibility Quotes

“Turns out, theres not a lot of information about pickles on the Internet.”
“We've been around for almost three decades now - there's about three generations of Bon Jovi fans.”
“Some people make you feel better about living. Some people you meet and you feel this little lift in your heart, this 'Ah', because there's something in them that's brighter or lighter, something beautiful or better than you, and here's the magic: instead of feeling worse, instead of feeling 'why am I so ordinary?', you feel just the opposite, you feel glad. In a weird way you feel better, because before this you hadn't realised or you'd forgotten human beings could shine so.”

Source : Niall Williams (2014). “History of the Rain: Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014”, p.128, A&C Black
“My family were staunch believers in physical violence, not automatic violence, and we had a Safeway around the corner, so we never really needed to kill anything.”
“Heartbreak was the impetus to me writing poems and music in the first place.”
“In the course of his long, turbulent career, W. E. B. Du Bois attempted virtually every possible solution to the problem of twentieth-century racism...scholarship, propaganda, integration, national self-determination, human rights, cultural and economic separatism, politics, international communism, expatriation, third world solidarity.”

Source : "'He Would Not Bleach His Negro Soul': W.E.B. Du Bois" by Kris Broughton, bigthink.com. 2017.
“Good leaders must know how to reward those who succeed and know when to retrain, move, or fire ineffective staff.”
“Instrument flying is an unnatural act probably punishable by God.”

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