Whatever she says to you, it’s your job not to let her make you mad.

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

Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives.

Being Southerners, it was a source of shame to some members of the family that we had no recorded ancestors on either side of the Battle of Hastings.

Things are always better in the morning.

Miss Caroline seemed unaware that the ragged, denim-shirted and floursack-skirted first grade, most of whom had chopped cotton and fed hogs from the time they were able to walk, were immune to imaginative literature.

Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand.