#literacy

As immigrant artists for whom so much has been sacrificed, so many dreams have been deferred, we already doubt so much. Who do we think we are? We think we are people who risked not existing at all. People who might have had a mother and father killed, either by a government or nature, even before we were born. Some of us think we are accidents of literacy. I do. ↗

— Edwidge Danticat

#dreams

Hespe's mouth went firm. She didn't scowl exactly, but it looked like she was getting all the pieces of a scowl together in one place, just in case she needed them in a hurry. ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

#literacy #relationships #humor

The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to dance with the most captivating of partners: poetry. ↗

— Aberjhani

#dancing #famous-poets #famous-quotes #literacy #music

Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication. ↗

— Karen Black

#illiteracy #out #people #rampant

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test. ↗

— George W. Bush

#child #her #literacy #pass #read

The hall-mark of American humour is its pose of illiteracy. ↗

— Ronald Knox

#humour #illiteracy #pose

There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health. ↗

— C. Everett Koop

#kinds #literacy #marry #things #you

She thought it must be a lonely life for a boy who hated books. ↗

— Hilda van Stockum

#books #loneliness #reading #life

Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people. ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#before #class #confined #educated #goal

To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees. ↗

— Munshi Premchand

#education #life #literacy #need #successful