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I learned about manufactured consent by reading Noam Chomsky;
Naomi Klein taught me about corporate globalization and capitalism;
Reading Abbie Hoffman illuminated theater and social activism;
Eugene Debbs taught me socialism;
Bertrand Russell philosophy;

Reading about Che and Ho Chi Min and Ghandi
taught me about revolution and resistance;
Harvey Milk and Allen Ginsberg unraveled queer power,
Edward Said introduced me to Orientalism

Better understood the American War in Vietnam through
Bao Ninh and Jonathan Neale;
Stephen Kinzer and the coup in Iran;
Unpacked empire with Arundhati Roy;

Howard Zinn taught me how to be American;
Thich Nhat Hanh how to search for peace;
bell hooks and Kate Manne- feminism
Mumia Abu-Jamal and Malcom X- race;

Books on movies, TV shows, bands and food;
Books on religion, drugs and evolution;
Books on heroes and villains,
Crime and justice
Education and running.

And that’s all just
a fraction of the non-fiction shelf.

Never let an uneducated unread person
vilify your literacy.

There is no education more valuable
than the one you can find on your own
in the pages of a book.

The world is not complete
until you’ve read around it.