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.

Like books and black lives, albums still matter.

Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilisation may be carried triumphantly forward.

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

If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open where they will. Make a voyage of discovery, taking soundings of uncharted seas.

If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free.