"Bookstores in general, but specifically Black-owned bookstores, have historically been a place where people have shared their ideas, shared their beliefs, and organized. It's been the foundation for a lot of our community. The other day I was putting away a book that talked about literary societies and their importance in Black communities and the roles that they played. You get your information from books, but sharing those ideas with other people and the development and growth that it allows within our community is the importance of Black bookstores. We're able to get books that are directed to us, which we might not be able to find most other places. It gives us an ability to see ourselves in a way that we wouldn't."
--Olakekan Kamau-Nataki of Everyone's Place Bookstore & African Culture Center, Baltimore, Md., in a q&a with Baltimore magazine