“- Sincere: Yo, when's the last time you read anything, man?
- Tommy 'Buns' Bundy: Never, motherfucker.”
Nas - Sincere
DMX - Tommy 'Buns' Bundy

“- Daisy Werthan: You know your letters don't you?
- Hoke Colburn: Oh yeah, yeah I know my abc's pretty good, just can't read.
- Daisy Werthan: Stop saying that you're making me mad! If you know your letters you can read. You just don't know you can read.”
Jessica Tandy - Daisy Werthan
Morgan Freeman - Hoke Colburn

“Read it for yourself, and not for some damn class.”

Ice Cube - Fudge

“I learned to read some. I read the Bible quite a bit. I can't understand all of it, but I reckon I understand a good deal of it.”
Billy Bob Thornton - Karl Childers

“There was a time in this country, a long time ago, when reading wasn't just for fags and neither was writing. People wrote books and movies, movies that had stories so you cared whose ass it was and why it was farting. And I believe that time can come again!”
Luke Wilson - Joe Bauers