If you're not making mistakes, you're not learning. - Percival Everett

"I had never heard such bullshit in my life. I opened my mouth and said, "I have never heard such bullshit in my life.

Which would frighten you more? A slave who is crazy or a slave who is sane and sees you clearly?

At that moment the power of reading made itself clear and real to me. If I could see the words, then no one could control them or what I got from them. They couldn’t even know if I was merely seeing them or reading them,