[Zitat] Unkommentiert – 1972

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

Maya Angelou (aus “From New Eyes for Old: Nonfiction Writings by Richard McKenna”)

[Zitat] Unkommentiert – 2010

“All information belongs to everybody all the time. It should be available. It should be accessible to the child, to the woman, to the man, to the old person, to the semiliterate, to the presidents of universities, to everyone. It should be open. […] Information is so important, and it must be open. […] Information helps you to see that you’re not alone. That there’s somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who all have wept, who’ve all longed and lost, who’ve all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you’re not really any different from everyone else. There may be details that are different, but a human being is a human being.”

Maya Angelou (Interview vom 29.10. 2010: “How Libraries Changed Maya Angelou’s Life”)