Read! In the name of God who created.
God who taught by pen (by writing).
-Qur'an Surah Al-Alaq: 1 & 4
Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.
-Prophet Muhammad
I am a part of everything that I read.
-Theodore Roosevelt
The act of reading is at once solitary and yet far from lonely.
-Desi Anwar
I’d volunteer to go to prison, as long as there are books. Because with books I am free.
-Moh. Hatta
Books are the training weights of the mind.
-Epictetus
If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.
-Francois Mauriac
Writing to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
-Isaac Asimov
Literacy is most basic currency of the knowledge economy.
-Barack Obama
There is more to literacy than reading and writing.
-Strive Masiyiwa
Photography is the story I fail to put into words.
-Destin Sparks
When literacy died, so had history.
-Walter Tevis
Geography has made us neighbors.
History has made us friends.
-John F. Kennedy
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
-Rudyard Kipling
but
History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it.
-Dorothy Salisbury Davis
a black mirror to read then to write 