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  • #1
    Octavia E. Butler
    “In order to rise
    From its own ashes
    A phoenix
    First
    Must
    Burn.”
    Octavia Butler, Parable of the Talents

  • #2
    Octavia E. Butler
    “I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.”
    Octavia E. Butler

  • #3
    Shonda Rhimes
    “I am not lucky. You know what I am? I am smart, I am talented, I take advantage of the opportunities that come my way and I work really, really hard. Don’t call me lucky. Call me a badass.”
    Shonda Rhimes, Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person

  • #4
    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #5
    Maya Angelou
    “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”
    Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

  • #6
    Maya Angelou
    “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #7
    Angela Y. Davis
    “Radical simply means "grasping things at the root.”
    Angela Davis

  • #8
    Angela Y. Davis
    “We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.”
    Angela Davis

  • #9
    Angela Y. Davis
    “You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.”
    Angela Davis

  • #10
    Ta-Nehisi Coates
    “But race is the child of racism, not the father.”
    Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

  • #11
    Ta-Nehisi Coates
    “Black people love their children with a kind of obsession. You are all we have, and you come to us endangered.”
    Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

  • #12
    Ta-Nehisi Coates
    “The problem with the police is not that they are fascist pigs but that our country is ruled by majoritarian pigs.”
    Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

  • #13
    Ta-Nehisi Coates
    “The enslaved were not bricks in your road, and their lives were not chapters in your redemptive history. They were people turned to fuel for the American machine.”
    Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

  • #14
    Ta-Nehisi Coates
    “Not being violent enough could cost me my body. Being too violent could cost me my body. We could not get out.”
    Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

  • #15
    Ta-Nehisi Coates
    “My work is to give you what I know of my own particular path while allowing you to walk your own.”
    Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

  • #16
    Toni Morrison
    “Correct what you can; learn from what you can’t.”
    Toni Morrison, God Help the Child

  • #17
    Zora Neale Hurston
    “I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.”
    Zora Neale Hurston, I Love Myself When I Am Laughing And Then Again When I Am Looking Mean & Impressive

  • #18
    Fran Lebowitz
    “Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
    Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader

  • #19
    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

  • #20
    Toni Morrison
    “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
    Toni Morrison

  • #21
    Jhumpa Lahiri
    “That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
    Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

  • #22
    Umberto Eco
    “We live for books.”
    Umberto Eco

  • #23
    Toni Morrison
    “When I write, I don't translate for white readers.... Dostoevski wrote for a Russian audience, but we're able to read him. If I'm specific, and I don't overexplain, then anyone can overhear me.”
    Toni Morrison

  • #24
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    “I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.”
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  • #25
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    “Relaxing your hair is like being in prison. You're caged in. Your hair rules you. You didn't go running with Curt today because you don't want to sweat out this straightness. You're always battling to make your hair do what it wasn't meant to do.”
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

  • #26
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    “Why did people ask "What is it about?" as if a novel had to be about only one thing.”
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

  • #27
    Gitty Daneshvari
    “I've always loved joining clubs--although, in truth, they're usually book clubs." ~Robecca Steam”
    Gitty Daneshvari, Monster High: Ghoulfriends Forever

  • #28
    Roxane Gay
    “Want nothing but the best for your friends because when your friends are happy and successful, it's probably going to be easier for you to be happy.”
    Roxane Gay

  • #29
    John Irving
    “My life is a reading list.”
    John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

  • #30
    Umberto Eco
    “The list could surely go on, and there is nothing more wonderful than a list, instrument of wondrous hypotyposis.”
    Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose



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