Way back about nineteen-twenty there was a Klan... The Ku Klux's gone... It'll never come back.

Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men.

As I made my way home, I thought Jem and I would get grown but there wasn't much else for us to learn, except possibly algebra.

It's not necessary to tell all you know.

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

Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.

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.