Walt Whitman called reading "an exercise, a gymnast's struggle." To me it is a creation, a lovemaking of small discoveries, hidden treasures, big dreams, I'm saddened almost beyond words when I think of what's being lost-what's already been destroyed-by people who are afraid of books.. . Books are potent things. . . Books and stories and reading are the meat of revolution and change, they can be dangerous and unpredictable.
Thoreau said, "How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book."
Only those who already have power have an interest in censorship.
from "Censors and Sensibilities" by Sallie Tisdale
Mirabella, January 1995
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