You see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that's the way I want to live.

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, he is trash.

You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.

Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I’ve tried to live so I can look squarely back at him.

So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses.... That proves something - that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human. Hmp, maybe we need a police force of children.

Jen and I were accustomed to our father's last-will-and-testament diction, and were at times free to interrupt Atticus for a translation when it was beyond our understanding.

It's not time to worry yet