Friends of the Richmond Public Library

The contents of a library can take you further than your own imagination could begin to imagine. To open a book is to open your mind.

Amberle Cianne, author

My Alma mater was books, a good library… I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

Malcolm X, human rights activist

A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.

Andrew Carnegie, industrialist & philanthropist

I’m of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.

Barbara Kingsolver, Virginia author

Funding libraries should be our number one national priority.

Karin Slaughter, author