To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.

She clung to that which had robbed her, as people do.

He was looking at her from behind the smiling that wasn't smiling but was something you were not supposed to see beyond.

A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.

Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is only the question: When will I be blown up? Because of this, the young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat. He must learn them again.

Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too.

To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.