In other words, all I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama - Harper Lee

Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it, hotheadedness isn't.

Talking to Francis gave me the sensation of settling slowly to the bottom of the ocean.

As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it — whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash