J.K. Rowling and Ray Bradbury are just some of the authors who have fought censorship
Happy Banned Books Week!
Maya Angelou
Im always sorry that people ban my books.
Many times Ive been called the most banned.
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Many times my books are banned by people who never read two sentences.
‘, which is the perfect time to talk to them about it.
But that’s when sometimes parents get hysterical.
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The real world is the playing ground for each and every group, to make or unmake laws.
If Mormons do not like my plays, let them write their own.
If the Irish hate my Dublin stories, let them rent typewriters.
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Because people recognize thats what memorials are for old bums and dogs to shit on.
I imagine, when I write, that I am writing for young readers not for uptight adults.
I feel, however, that the problem is one of illiteracy, not Marxism.
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As though a whole universe is being described in invisible ink.
Philip Roth
This indictment is a kind of fever that flares up from time to time.
Now theres just a low-grade fever running, nothing to worry about.
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You know… if you hang around long enough, they begin to get used to you.
If a fool looks in, you cant expect a genius to look out.
People tend to find in books what they want to find.
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And I think my books are very moral.
Salman Rushdie
On whether he’d writeThe Satanic Versestoday:“I would have written it.
I don’t know that I would have survived.
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I hope we’re not so craven and cowardly that we can’t publish books anymore.
But I think the level of danger would have been exponentially higher in the age of the internet.
you’re free to spread hostility so fast now.
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We see that everyday in the way the internet is used as a force.”
And you know why.
Sendak: Hes got a dick.
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The language was painful and life was painful for many African Americans, including my family.
I remember the pain.
The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean.
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None can do that and ever draw a clean sweet breath again on this side of the grave.
Kurt Vonnegut
All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values.
Give me knowledge or give me death!
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