I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading has opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive. Malcolm X
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Charles Dickens is known to have said, “I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading has opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.” This quote perfectly sums up how reading developed into a passion for Charles Dickens. Before he was confined to prison, Dickens was not that interested in reading.

However, once he discovered this incredible new state of being, he was hooked. Reading allowed him to escape from his prison of reality and enter into another realm entirely. It is the power of reading that helped shape his life and changed his course forever.

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  1. People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.
  2. So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.
  3. You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
  4. You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker
  5. The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.
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