Try fighting with your head for a change... it's a good one, even if it does resist learning.

There's just some kind of men you have to shoot before you can say hidy to 'em. Even then, they ain't worth the bullet it takes to shoot 'em.

I came to the conclusion that people were just peculiar, I withdrew from them, and never thought about them until I was forced to.

Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.

I suppose she chose me because she knew my name; as I read the alphabet a faint line appeared between her eyebrows, and after making me read most of My First Reader and the stock-market quotations from The Mobile Register aloud, she discovered that I was literate and looked at me with more than faint distaste. Miss Caroline told me to tell my father not to teach me any more, it would interfere with my reading.

That proves something- that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human.

I'm Charles Baker Harris...I can read