We Need Diverse Books Quotes & Sayings

I believe we need more culturally diverse books - about disabled characters, though not about their disability, about people with different sexual orientations, or a boy who is a cross-dresser. We need to reflect the diversity of our society. — Malorie Blackman

Make someone else do it... and the job is done"
The shouty man. (Jim Howick)Horrible Histories. — C.G. Hassack

Black children need to see their lives reflected in the books they read. If they don't, they won't feel welcome in the world of literature. The lives of African-Americans are rich and diverse, and the books our children read should reflect that. — Valerie Wilson Wesley

If we had enough data then this statistical approach would undoubtedly sort out these things, and a lot of problems are arising precisely because we haven't got enough documents for the statistical approach to be wholly valid. I know you can calculate levels of probability and so forth, but to establish this really clearly we want a lot more information than we have actually got available. This is surely our major problem that we are still at the very limits at which you can use a technique of this sort. - John Chadwick — Jennifer K. McArthur

There are dreamers and there are planners; the planners make their dreams come true. — Edwin Louis Cole

I want to be a homer. I'm getting paid for something that I love to do. I would do it for nothing. — Ron Santo

Adrian was easily distractible by wacky topics and shiny objects. — Richelle Mead

Growing up and seeing your parents' flaws is like losing your religion. I don't believe in God anymore. I don't believe in my father either. — Nicola Yoon

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

One can't help but bring one's own personality into what one is doing, and it's certainly true of us actors and it's true of writers. — Keith Carradine

Usually when we talk about blessings, we experience joy and anticipation of a greater presence of God in our lives — Sunday Adelaja

And prayer? How could you pray to a God you wanted to hit? — Benjamin Alire Saenz

The literature of America should reflect the children of America. — Lucille Clifton

I kiss him to get him to stop talking. If he keeps talking I will love him, and I don't want to love him. I really don't. As strategies go, it's not my finest. Kissing is just another way of talking except without the words. — Nicola Yoon

I'm a very individualistic person. That is why I don't belong to any political party or anything. I really believe in justice and freedom. — Marjane Satrapi

The reasons that center on others are easy to manipulate. All hollow things are light. — David Foster Wallace

Art to be art must soothe. — Mahatma Gandhi

You cannot reason with a rifle bullet fired from across the battlefield. You cannot negotiate with an artillery shell lobbed from over the horizon. You cannot compromise with a nuclear warhead screaming in from half a world away. The only answer to the gun, the only defense for the gun, has been more guns. — Arthur C. Clarke