Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to seek out the most hidden and intimate things.

In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.

I wanted to read all these books, but I would have to have been in a rest home or something to do that.

Like books and black lives, albums still matter.

I'm mad about good books, can't get my fill .