Harper Lee And Quotations

I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year. Scout

Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.

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 choose your friends, but you sho' can't choose your family.

Never, never, never on cross-examination ask a witness a question you don't already know the answer to, was a tenet I absorbed with my baby food. Do it, and you'll often get an answer you don't want.

hold your head high and keep those fists down - Atticus Finch

Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in.

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.