A lot of them can’t READ. Full stop.

People think I’m being alarmist when I say they are trying to make you dumb. They feel entitled to control how and to what extent you can access knowledge. They send their kids to tech-free schools while ensuring public school kids can’t read. They want you illiterate.

I think y'all are shocked by this because you've all just gotten so used to blabbing nonstop about complex issues you don't really know anything about it, so now it's genuinely alien to you when a person admits they're not qualified to have an opinion on something.

🇧🇸🇵🇷 Kitts Loud on homophobia, quiet on corruption, quiet on pedophilia, quiet on domestic violence, quiet on mental health and quiet on alcoholism…the Caribbean way.

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You ain't had a real reader girl before. A kindle doll. A Libby lady. A daughter of the library.

Invest more in Caribbean literature; we have authors across multiple genres who’re creating amazing stories.

why is there actually, legitimately, discourse around reading speed right now “8 hours to read a book is slow” “you should be able to read a book in 3-5 hours” bro we are in a literacy CRISIS, i do not care how fast or slow you read a book, just pick one up and read it

There isn’t a TikTok or YouTube video that can replace reading books.

Y'all would've called her liar just like you did to Megan and all other black women You only act like you care now because she's a "perfect victim"

Who benefits when we teach kids that all villains are just misunderstood and there’s no evil?

A student today at my elite university admitted to me today that she took a class so she could work on reading for more than 20 minutes at a time. She can't read. She mainly skims and summarizes, she says and still gets A's. This student is, by professional standards,

Black women in STEM >>>>>

Civilization was built by people like this, and there is a stunning lack of gratitude in our culture for their work. In this specific case, at least half of the apple varieties in Brown’s collection were considered “lost” until he personally tracked them down and saved them.

Not to be a fucking nerd or anything but writing academic papers is actually super fun when you have a genuine interest in the topic!

Everyone wants soul returned to our society but nobody wants to pay the ones who provide it: artists

The only data centers that communities actually need are PUBLIC LIBRARIES.