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Top 30 Kim Michele Richardson Quotes (2025 Update)

Kim Michele Richardson Quote: “Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.” – Napoleon Bonaparte.”

1. “Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.” – Napoleon Bonaparte.”

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Kim Michele Richardson Quote: “Can’t be angry and smart at the same time. Now, nothing wrong in having the anger, but the two rarely work together.”

2. “Can’t be angry and smart at the same time. Now, nothing wrong in having the anger, but the two rarely work together.”

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Kim Michele Richardson Quote: “What I wanted most was to be okay as a Blue. I never understood why other people thought my color, any color, needed fixing.”

3. “What I wanted most was to be okay as a Blue. I never understood why other people thought my color, any color, needed fixing.”

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Kim Michele Richardson Quote: “Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.” As long as you have the books, you’ll always have that light. –.”

4. “Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.” As long as you have the books, you’ll always have that light. –.”

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Kim Michele Richardson Quote: “I never understood why other people thought my color, any color, needed fixing.”

5. “I never understood why other people thought my color, any color, needed fixing.”

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Kim Michele Richardson Quote: “Well, them cloths are a lot like folks. Ain’t much difference at all. Some of us is more spiffed up than others, some stiffer, and still, some softer. There’s the colorful and dull, ugly and pretty, old, new ’uns. But in the end we’s all fabric, cut from His cloth. Fabric, and just that.”

6. “Well, them cloths are a lot like folks. Ain’t much difference at all. Some of us is more spiffed up than others, some stiffer, and still, some softer. There’s the colorful and dull, ugly and pretty, old, new ’uns. But in the end we’s all fabric, cut from His cloth. Fabric, and just that.”

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Kim Michele Richardson Quote: “It was vital to free folk from illiteracy, to save those imprisoned by its bondage, she’d said.”

7. “It was vital to free folk from illiteracy, to save those imprisoned by its bondage, she’d said.”

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Kim Michele Richardson Quote: “I had no right telling you how you should feel. No right claiming knowledge on things I could and will never feel. I’ve never known harm or exile because of my skin. Nor felt the lash of leather whips or angry tongues because of it.”

8. “I had no right telling you how you should feel. No right claiming knowledge on things I could and will never feel. I’ve never known harm or exile because of my skin. Nor felt the lash of leather whips or angry tongues because of it.”

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Kim Michele Richardson Quote: “Lots of cures are worse than what they aim to cure. Are you stuck with it, or can you toss it?”

9. “Lots of cures are worse than what they aim to cure. Are you stuck with it, or can you toss it?”

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Kim Michele Richardson Quote: “You grow readers, expand minds, if you let them choose, but you go banning a read, you stunt the whole community.”

10. “You grow readers, expand minds, if you let them choose, but you go banning a read, you stunt the whole community.”

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Kim Michele Richardson Quote: “Why couldn’t you let him grow up?” I curled myself into a tight ball on the blood-soaked Kentucky soil, wailing for Henry and all the Henrys in these dark hollows who’d never be a common grown-up. Stuck forever as Peter Pans.”

11. “Why couldn’t you let him grow up?” I curled myself into a tight ball on the blood-soaked Kentucky soil, wailing for Henry and all the Henrys in these dark hollows who’d never be a common grown-up. Stuck forever as Peter Pans.”

— Kim Michele Richardson

Kim Michele Richardson Quote: “What do you hope readers will ultimately take away from Cussy’s story? Poverty and marginalization are not so much economics or politics or societal issues as much as they are human issues. They are best grappled with by reaching deep into the lives of those suffering them. Knowing one small piece of this world – the earth, the sky, the plants, the people, and the very air of it – helps us to understand the sufferings and joys of others ourselves.”

12. “What do you hope readers will ultimately take away from Cussy’s story? Poverty and marginalization are not so much economics or politics or societal issues as much as they are human issues. They are best grappled with by reaching deep into the lives of those suffering them. Knowing one small piece of this world – the earth, the sky, the plants, the people, and the very air of it – helps us to understand the sufferings and joys of others ourselves.”

— Kim Michele Richardson

Kim Michele Richardson Quote: “Though it rarely happens fast enough and not near as quick as it should, Honey, I expect like all ugly laws, change will come.”

13. “Though it rarely happens fast enough and not near as quick as it should, Honey, I expect like all ugly laws, change will come.”

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Kim Michele Richardson Quote: “Being able to return to the books was a sanctuary for my heart.”

14. “Being able to return to the books was a sanctuary for my heart.”

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Kim Michele Richardson Quote: “We pray that the laws of the land will change to favor all unions, all folks one day. I remain hopeful for our safety and our future.”

15. “We pray that the laws of the land will change to favor all unions, all folks one day. I remain hopeful for our safety and our future.”

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Kim Michele Richardson Quote: “Look to the beast, the bird, the wild dog, the critters, Pa’d taught me long ago. God spent all their might on the ears so they would have protection. And that safeguard ensures ours.”

16. “Look to the beast, the bird, the wild dog, the critters, Pa’d taught me long ago. God spent all their might on the ears so they would have protection. And that safeguard ensures ours.”

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Kim Michele Richardson Quote: “I liked my sensibility just fine. I liked my freedom a lot – loved the solitude these last seven months had given me – and I lived for the joy of bringing books and reading materials to the hillfolk who were desperate for my visits, the printed word that brought a hopeful world into their dreary lives and dark hollers. It was necessary. And for the first time in my life, I felt necessary.”

17. “I liked my sensibility just fine. I liked my freedom a lot – loved the solitude these last seven months had given me – and I lived for the joy of bringing books and reading materials to the hillfolk who were desperate for my visits, the printed word that brought a hopeful world into their dreary lives and dark hollers. It was necessary. And for the first time in my life, I felt necessary.”

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Kim Michele Richardson Quote: “Their hunger for books could teach them of a better life free of the hunger, but without food they’d never live long enough or have the strength to find it.”

18. “Their hunger for books could teach them of a better life free of the hunger, but without food they’d never live long enough or have the strength to find it.”

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Kim Michele Richardson Quote: “I accepted that some things in life could never, and maybe should never be explained.”

19. “I accepted that some things in life could never, and maybe should never be explained.”

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Kim Michele Richardson Quote: “This ol’ ‘Tucky land sure makes a man yearn for it and want to flee it altogether. And you can sure ’nough have yourself one foot on foreign soil, but the other is always pointed home.”

20. “This ol’ ‘Tucky land sure makes a man yearn for it and want to flee it altogether. And you can sure ’nough have yourself one foot on foreign soil, but the other is always pointed home.”

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Kim Michele Richardson Quote: “Freedom. It was all I could think about. I picked up a book and rubbed its worn cover, fanned through the pages, marveling over the power you could get from books.”

21. “Freedom. It was all I could think about. I picked up a book and rubbed its worn cover, fanned through the pages, marveling over the power you could get from books.”

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Kim Michele Richardson Quote: “Marry me, Cussy Mary, and I promise to spend every waking breath trying to be worthy of you.”

22. “Marry me, Cussy Mary, and I promise to spend every waking breath trying to be worthy of you.”

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Kim Michele Richardson Quote: “Those that can’t see past a folk’s skin color have a hard difference in them. There’s a fire in that difference. And when they see you, they’ll still see a Blue. No city drug’s gonna change small minds, what they think about peculiarity. For them like-minded folks, there is no redemption for our kind. Stay put where you belong, Cussy.”

23. “Those that can’t see past a folk’s skin color have a hard difference in them. There’s a fire in that difference. And when they see you, they’ll still see a Blue. No city drug’s gonna change small minds, what they think about peculiarity. For them like-minded folks, there is no redemption for our kind. Stay put where you belong, Cussy.”

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Kim Michele Richardson Quote: “He pushed his face closer to mine and I tucked my chin, cowering, knowing if there was one thing the Blue folk had in common with other womenfolk, it was to do just that, duck from a man’s hard flying fist. Like all Kentucky women, I knew when to stand and knew when to bow and back down. It was a means of survival that was taught to the very young, instilled in the smallest of girls.”

24. “He pushed his face closer to mine and I tucked my chin, cowering, knowing if there was one thing the Blue folk had in common with other womenfolk, it was to do just that, duck from a man’s hard flying fist. Like all Kentucky women, I knew when to stand and knew when to bow and back down. It was a means of survival that was taught to the very young, instilled in the smallest of girls.”

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Kim Michele Richardson Quote: “Laws about females never make a lick of sense because they’re made and run by men and meant to keep us in bondage.”

25. “Laws about females never make a lick of sense because they’re made and run by men and meant to keep us in bondage.”

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Kim Michele Richardson Quote: “Her cabin was half-swallowed in shadow and rolling fog, haloed by fireflies chewing through the darkness.”

26. “Her cabin was half-swallowed in shadow and rolling fog, haloed by fireflies chewing through the darkness.”

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Kim Michele Richardson Quote: “Soon the forest would cast aside its sleeping blanket and perfume the air with its riches.”

27. “Soon the forest would cast aside its sleeping blanket and perfume the air with its riches.”

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Kim Michele Richardson Quote: “I’ve modified one historical date in the story so I could include relevant information about medical aspects and discoveries. Instead of the 1930s, as is the book’s era, it was actually in the 1960s when Madison Cawein, MD, a Kentucky hematologist heard about the blue-skinned people and set out to find them.”

28. “I’ve modified one historical date in the story so I could include relevant information about medical aspects and discoveries. Instead of the 1930s, as is the book’s era, it was actually in the 1960s when Madison Cawein, MD, a Kentucky hematologist heard about the blue-skinned people and set out to find them.”

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Kim Michele Richardson Quote: “Being able to return to the books was a sanctuary for my heart. And a joy bolted free, lessening my own grievances, forgiving spent youth and dying dreams lost to a hard life, the hard land, and to folks’ hard thoughts and partialities.”

29. “Being able to return to the books was a sanctuary for my heart. And a joy bolted free, lessening my own grievances, forgiving spent youth and dying dreams lost to a hard life, the hard land, and to folks’ hard thoughts and partialities.”

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Kim Michele Richardson Quote: “Like the warmth of winter candlelight cast across a beloved, worn book, he was.”

30. “Like the warmth of winter candlelight cast across a beloved, worn book, he was.”

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Kim Michele Richardson Quote: “The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man.” – T. S. Eliot.”

31. “The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man.” – T. S. Eliot.”

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