Famous quotes containing the words richard, montgomery and/or high:
“Im beginning to believe that Killer Illiteracy ought to rank near heart disease and cancer as one of the leading causes of death among Americans. What you dont know can indeed hurt you, and so those who can neither read nor write lead miserable lives, like Richard Wrights character, Bigger Thomas, born dead with no past or future.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)
“Journey to Gethsemane, go and feel the tempters power;
Your Redeemers conflict see, watch the anguish of this hour;
Do not hide or turn away: learn from Jesus how to pray.”
—James Montgomery (17711854)
“A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books dont slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.”
—Pablo Neruda (19041973)
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