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My mother introduced me to more academic-minded writers, Cornel West and Skip Gates. In her library, I came across, when I was very young, Harold Cruse's 'The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual,' which is like a bible of Negro intellectuals from Frederick Douglass to Amiri Baraka. Rashid Johnson
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During my long study sessions in the library, I found myself watching YouTube videos during study breaks. Ray William Johnson
Myself Library Videos Long YouTube Study Breaks Found Watching
I get asked a lot what books I recommend for a nursery, home library, etc., and I always tell parents to start with what they loved as children, what they want to share, and broaden out from there. Rebecca Serle
Home Library Parents Nursery Books Broaden Out Tell Recommend Share Always Lot Get Children Want Loved Etc Asked Start
I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century. Rick Moody
Work Library Back Finish Boston Fact New Tracing New England Am Lineage Historical Up Trying Where In Fact Century England Now Right
Libraries have a PR problem - or at least that's what they call it when no one under the age of 40 walks through the door. To bring in a younger crowd, the paper pushers have turned to tech to bring in the public. DVDs, CDs and, yes, even videogames are hitting the shelves of your local library. Rob Manuel
Library Age Problem Walks Local Paper Libraries Crowd Through No-One Call Least Shelves Yes Hitting Door Public Younger Turned Videogames Your Even Tech Bring
Allegations that President Clinton pardoned Marc Rich partly in return for donations to his presidential library have raised questions about the value of such institutions and the federal appropriations that support them. Robert Dallek
Library Value Rich President President Clinton Presidential About Allegations Pardoned Federal Support Institutions Partly Return His Clinton Questions Donations Them Marc Raised
Thanks to modern technology, we now can deliver every text in every research library to every citizen in our country, and to everyone in the world. If we fail to do so, we are not living up to our civic duty. Robert Darnton
Technology Library World Citizen Country Thanks Duty Research Living Every Everyone Our Civic Deliver Fail Text Up Modern Modern Technology Now
The idea of a national digital library has been in the air for a long time, and there was a danger that some people would feel that it's their property, so to speak. Robert Darnton
Time Library Property People Speak Digital Some People Long Long Time National Air Danger Has-Been Would Some Idea Feel Been
It's important to make clear to all the schools at Harvard the central role of the library. Robert Darnton
Library Important Harvard Clear Schools Make Role Central
For a whole year in elementary school, when the class marched down to the school library every week, I would refuse to return my book. I would just check it out again and again. Every week. For a whole year. The object of my fourth-grade filibuster was 'D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths.' Robin Sloan
Library Class Book School Year Down Every Out Would Object Week Myths Check Return Greek Just Refuse Again Whole Filibuster Elementary Elementary School
In London, I discovered a peculiar building by Holland Park where the globe was shrunk to fit a British perspective, but which had a library with Sri Lankan books I had never seen before. Romesh Gunesekera
Library Perspective Seen Building Before Books London Park Never Had Globe Discovered Fit Where Which Holland Shrunk British Peculiar
When I was growing up, I remember having read all the books in the library. I often tried to emulate my favourite writers. Ruskin Bond
Library Remember Books Tried Favourite Having Writers Read Emulate Up Often Growing Growing Up
There is that romanticized idea of what a bookstore can be, what a library can be, what a shop can be. And to me, they are that. These are places that open doors into other worlds if only you're open to them. Ruth Reichl
Me You Library Doors Other Worlds Bookstore Only Open Open Doors Idea Shop Places Them
The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book. Samuel Johnson
Time Library Man Book Will Half Reading Spent Write Writer Part Over Make Greatest Order Turn
Being attracted to my own sex was as much part of who I was as being short or blonde or drawn to the library, but I was made to grow up feeling 'other.' Most books, films - even advertisements - didn't reflect how I felt, and I often watched the world from the outside. Sandi Toksvig
Library World Sex Made Feeling Reflect Own Films Other Books Drawn My Own Outside Part Most Attracted Advertisement Felt How Blonde Up Often Short Being Much Who Even Grow Grow Up Watched
When I go to a premiere I like to borrow lovely clothes and shoes from designers. It's like the library: if you return them in good condition, you get to borrow more. I'm very lucky. Sarah Jessica Parker
Good You Library Shoes Clothes Borrow More Like Return Go Condition Very Get Lovely Them Premiere Lucky Designers
For thousands and thousands of American kids, libraries are the only safe place they can find to study, a haven free from the dangers of street or the numbing temptations of television. As schools cut back services, the library looms even more important to countless children. Scott Turow
Library Safe Place Free Important Back Dangers Television Kids Libraries Find Thousands Temptations Haven More Only Study Countless Safe Schools American Children Place American Kids Cut Even Street Services Numbing
Filmmaking has been my love since my mother brought me to see James Whale's 'Frankenstein' at the local library at the age of six. Sean Baker
Love Me Library Age Mother Local Frankenstein Has-Been See Brought Since Been Whale Six James Filmmaking
You start to accumulate your library of music. You want that music everywhere - that's the point where we monetize. If you want portability, mobility, and access, then you buy it. Sean Parker
Buy Music You Library Everywhere Point Access Mobility Accumulate Where Want Then Your Start
I was that kid with the glasses and the hungry expression who haunted every library book sale and used bookstore in town: the one who always has a book in one hand and is reaching for the next book with the other. There's one in every town. Seanan McGuire
Library Book Glasses Every Other Bookstore Kid Hungry Haunted Town Reaching Always Sale Hand Next Used Who Expression
I wrote one terrible manuscript after another for a decade and I guess they gradually got a little less terrible. But there were many, many unpublished short stories, abandoned screenplays and novels... a Library of Congress worth of awful literature. Seth Grahame-Smith
Library Worth Congress Guess Abandoned Unpublished Wrote Terrible Another Got Were Decade Gradually Short Screenplays Stories After Short Stories Literature Little Less Manuscript Many Novels Awful
In Liverpool, where I live, we have a brilliant library which has been refurbished, and I like going there. Shaun Evans
Library Brilliant Live Has-Been Like Been Going Where Which Liverpool
I don't have sophisticated tastes. I have average tastes. If you looked in my collection of DVDs, you'd see 'Jaws' and 'Star Wars.' In the book library, you'd see John Grisham and Sidney Sheldon. And if you look in my fridge, it's, like, children's food - chips, milkshakes, yogurt. Simon Cowell
Food You Library Book Collection John See John Grisham Like Sophisticated Look Looked Fridge Yogurt Tastes Children Chips Average Jaws Wars Star Star Wars
The London Library in Piccadilly is the best place for a sleep. Sophie Winkleman
Best Library London Place Sleep
I'm a sucker for lost worlds. I was nostalgic even as a child. I was happiest in my hometown library in Adams, Mass., where nothing seemed to change. Stacy Schiff
Library Change Lost Nothing Worlds Seemed Mass Child Where Nostalgic Happiest Sucker Even Hometown
With the exception of undertakers, athletes are the only professionals obliged to feign sorrow on a daily basis, pretending that every June baseball loss is a tragedy requiring library silence in the clubhouse. Steve Rushin
Daily Silence Library Pretending Every Athletes Only Obliged Exception Feign Sorrow Loss Tragedy June Clubhouse Requiring Baseball Daily Basis Professionals Basis
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