Take the time to discover how African-Americans have had a great impact on this country. In science, education, literature, art, and politics. Lynn Swann
The concept of industry domination of regulatory agencies was well known and documented in the literature by the 1960s. Nick Johnson
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. Oscar Wilde
The methodologies of examining hip hop are borrowed from sociology, politics, religion, economics, urban studies, journalism, communications theory, American studies, transatlantic studies, black studies, history, musicology, comparative literature, English, linguistics, and other disciplines. Michael Eric Dyson
The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper whether little or great, it belongs to Literature. Willa Cather
The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. Annie Dillard
There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't. Doris Lessing
This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant. Virginia Woolf
What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared. Doris Lessing
What sort of person you grow into should not be achieved by default, and often that's exactly what happens to kids. I see literature as a method of guidance, information, and contemplation, and consider it the greatest compliment possible when a reader tells me that a book of mine really made him/her think. Wendelin Van Draanen
With literature, sometimes a book is presented in the media as being say, a Muslim story or an African story, when essentially it's a universal story which we can all relate to it, no matter what race or social background we come from. Shawn Johnson