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.
Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.
Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do. It aggravates em. You're not gonna change any of them by talking right, they've got to want to learn themselves, and when they don't want to learn there's nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language.
I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
Well, they're Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of walking right in for coffee. But they wouldn't dream of interrupting you at golf.
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
Harper Lee was friends with the writer Truman Capote.
Harper Lee's first name was originally Nelle, but she goes by Harper.
Her widely acclaimed book, To Kill A Mockingbird, is about racial injustice in the South.
Harper Lee wrote To Kill A Mockingbird in 1960.
The fact that she has withdrawn from public life has made many think she is in the midst of a new book. However, there is no evidence prompting that.
In 2005, Harper Lee was awarded the Los Angelos Public Library Literary Award.
Harper Lee: (Talking about the film adaption of her book) If the integrity of a film adaptation can be measured by the degree to which the novelist's intent is preserved, Mr. Foote's screenplay should be studied as a classic.
To Kill A Mockingbird is considered a canon of American literature.
It took her 2 1/2 years to write To Kill A Mockingbird.
She was a member of a society called the "Chi Omega".
She spent a year being the editor of the Huntingdon College magazine, Rammer-Jammer.
She studied for a year in Oxford, then mover to New York, and got a job as a reservation clerk with Eastern Air Lines.
Her book, To Kill A Mockingbird, started out as some short stories about life in the South.
Harper Lee: (referring to the hit film of her book starring Gregory Peck in the 1960s) I think it is one of the best translations of a book to film ever made.
Harper Lee: This was my childhood: If I went to a film once a month it was pretty good for me, and for all children like me. We had to use our own devices in our play, for our entertainment. We didn't have much money. Nobody had any money. We didn't have toys, nothing was done for us, so the result was that we lived in our imagination most of the time. We devised things; we were readers, and we would transfer everything we had seen on the printed page to the backyard in the form of high drama.
Harper Lee: I want to do the best I can with the talent God gave me. I hope to goodness that every novel I do gets better and better. In other words all I want to be is the Jane Austin of south Alabama...
Harper Lee was named by President Lyndon Johnson to the National Council of Arts.
Harper Lee: I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird.' I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the hands of the reviewers but, at the same time, I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.
In order to concentrate on writing more, she gave up her job and moved into a small apartment.
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