"“I think I’ll be a clown when I get grown….. Yes, sir, a clown. There ain’t one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I’m gonna join the circus and laugh my head off… I’m gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks. Just looka yonder, every one of ’em oughta be ridin’ a broomstick.” |
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 |
Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do. |
Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do. It aggravates em. You're not gonna change any of them by talking right, they've got to want to learn themselves, and when they don't want to learn there's nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language. |
I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks. |
I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system -- that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality. Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up. |
It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived. |
Never, never, never, on cross-examination ask a witness a question you don't already know the answer to . . . . Do it, and you'll often get an answer you I don't want, an answer that might wreck your case. |
Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. |
The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that. |
The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that. |
To Kill a Mockingbird |
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. |
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. |
Well, they're Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of walking right in for coffee. But they wouldn't dream of interrupting you at golf. |