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I grew up in the midst of poverty but every black kid that I knew could read and write. We have to talk about the fact that we cannot educate for critical consciousness if we have a group of people who cannot access Fanon, Cabral, or Audre Lorde because they can’t read or write. How did Malcolm X radicalize his consciousness? He did it through books. If you deprive working-class and poor black people of access to reading and writing, you are making them that much farther removed from being a... Bell Hooks
i believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try and make it absolutely perfect; or if not that then wonderful. then you write for who you love whether they can read or write or not and whether they are alive or dead. Ernest Hemingway
Coming to understand a painting or a symphony in an unfamiliar style, to recognize the work of an artist or school, to see or hear in new ways, is as cognitive an achievement as learning to read or write or add. Nelson Goodman
Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good. Thomas Kempis
As simple an act as reading or writing a sentence must be surrounded by perceptory nap and weave . . . an itch, a stray memory from childhood, the distant sound of a barking dog, or something left over from the lunch that is found caught between the teeth. David Brin
Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able to read or write. Besides they wear black, which is such a beastly color. I'm so glad I'm a Beta. Aldous Huxley
Primo Levi quote: "He could hardly read or write but his heart spoke the language..."
He could hardly read or write but his heart spoke the language of the good Primo Levi
Rex Stout quote: "I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing."
I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing. Rex Stout
I have never learned to read or write music so I am not a virtuoso musician like the others you mentioned. I am completely unable to play like them because I never learned classical music, I just developed my own crazy style! Ken Hensley
Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote. William Hazlitt
Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn't read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard. Al Lewis
David Herbert Lawrence quote: "The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write."
The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write. David Herbert Lawrence
Jose Saramago quote: "The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or..."
The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write. Jose Saramago
Wally Amos quote: "Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write."
Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write. Wally Amos
Idleness does drive me crazy, but I'd rather read or write than do anything just to work. A kind of respect has been instilled in me for acting: I love it too much to ever have a bad relationship with it. Karen Allen

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