I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they must be good.

There is no trickier subject for a writer from the South than that of affection between a black person and a white one in the unequal world of segregation. For the dishonesty upon which a society is founded makes every emotion suspect, makes it impossible to know whether what flowed between two people was honest feeling or pity or pragmatism.(Howell Raines's Pulitzer Prize winning article "Grady's Gift")-Sockett admired this quote and used it in her summary.

Got to be the worst place in the world, inside a oven. You in here, you either cleaning or you getting cooked.

Rich folk don't try so hard

I may not remember my name or what country I live in, but you and that pie is something I will never forget.

Down in the national news section, there's an article on a new pill, the 'Valium' they're calling it, 'to help women cope with everyday challenges.' God, I could use about ten of those little pills right now.

And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.