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“All my life, the library has always been one of my favorite places to go. (Larry Brown: A Writer's Life by Jean W. Cash)”
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“Reading, for pleasure and knowledge, has always been, will always be one of my favorite things to do. (Larry Brown: A Writer's Life by Jean W. Cash)”
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“I have always had a love for American geography, and especially for the landscapes of the South. One of my pleasures has been to drive across it, with no one in the world knowing where I am, languidly absorbing the thoughts and memories of old moments, of people vanished now from my life.”
― The Courting of Marcus Dupree
― The Courting of Marcus Dupree
“We know You love us. We love You, too. I mean, six, seven thousand years from now . . . won't make no difference, will it? Everybody gonna be so mixed up by then that far in the future that they all gonna be the same color by then, ain't they?”
― Dirty Work
― Dirty Work
“Libraries are about books. Books have no color. And they don't care who reads them.”
― Glory Be
― Glory Be
“The sky had cleared, and now the sun was overhead, already baking the wet ground so that you could see the humidity drifting lazily above the cotton stalks.”
― A Painted House
― A Painted House
“As with many Southern Writers, I believe that the special quality of the land itself indelibly shapes the people who dwell upon it.”
― The Courting of Marcus Dupree
― The Courting of Marcus Dupree
“Generally the first week in September brings the hottest weather of the year, and this was no exception. Overhead the fans turned slow, their paddle blades stirring the air up close to the ceiling but nowheres else...”
― Follow Me Down
― Follow Me Down
“She wore heavy sandals, with socks. No kid in the entire state of Mississippi wore black socks in the summer. Shoot, if I wasn't standing smack-dab in the middle of the library, I wouldn't be wearing shoes.”
― Glory Be
― Glory Be
“Just look what happens to poets," I used to tell my honors class on the first day of school. "Half the time they go mad. And you know why I think that happens? Too much truth distilled to its essence, all surrounding evidence ignored or discarded. And I'm not faulting them for that.”
― Safe from the Neighbors
― Safe from the Neighbors
“The Mississippi Delta is not always dark with rain. Some autumn mornings, the sun rises over Moon Lake, or Eagle, or Choctaw, or Blue, or Roebuck, all the wide, deep waters of the state, and when it does, its dawn is as rosy with promise and hope as any other.”
― Wolf Whistle
― Wolf Whistle
“I told him. We got a library here. Got plenty of good books, too. -Larry Brown, Dirty Work”
― Dirty Work
― Dirty Work
“But courage was growing in me too. Little by little it was getting harder and harder for me not to speak out.”
― Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South
― Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South
“Cuddle up. Rain always stops. It always stops. It always does. -The Brown Cape”
― The Courts of Love: Stories
― The Courts of Love: Stories
“She was always saying things like that but I let her be my best friend anyway.”
― Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories
― Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories
“I walked straight to the library. Mrs. Bloom, the librarian, always knows everything.”
― Glory Be
― Glory Be
“It may sound funny, but I love the South. I don't choose to live anywhere else. There's land here, where a man can raise cattle, and I'm going to do that someday. There are lakes where a man can sink a hook and fight bass. There is room here for my children to play, and grow, and become good citizens...”
― For Us, The Living
― For Us, The Living
“Books, the books that I loved above all else to spend my time with, were the great tools for understanding one's life and the lives of other people.”
― Witnessing
― Witnessing
“When she thinks a book is very good, what she says to herself is: yes, that's how things are. I hadn't thought of it before, but that's how things are.”
― Witnessing
― Witnessing
“We were running all over the front lawn and under the rainspouts, barefooted, in our underpants, with the rain pelting down, straight cold gray rain of Delta summers, wonderful rain. -Mexico”
― Light Can Be Both Wave and Particle
― Light Can Be Both Wave and Particle
“It was spring when it happened and the schoolroom windows were open all day long, and every afternoon after Billy left we had milk from little waxy cartons and Mrs. Jansma would read us chapters from a wonderful book about some children in England that had a bed that took them places at night.”
― Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories
― Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories
“For the rest of the afternoon, Miss Bloom smiled almost as bright as the big yellow sun shining through the front picture window. Her library was filled up with people who loved books.”
― Glory Be
― Glory Be
“My rhythm was joined with that of the Mississippi seasons. To change would shift everything inside of me...”
― Them Bones
― Them Bones
“I sat there listening to "We Shall Overcome," looking out of the window at the passing Mississippi landscape.”
― Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South
― Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South
“Christophe peeled the shrimp slowly and carefully: that was his way around her, and it was the exact opposite of his usual demeanor. She knew it for what it was: love.”
― Where the Line Bleeds
― Where the Line Bleeds
“It's so nice to be around a man who isn't hung up about his car," she said.
"Mom, I can't believe you're saying that. You treat that Coupe Deville like it's a member of the family."
"But I'm a woman, darling. I'm supposed to feel that way about my Deville.”
― The Green-Eyed Hurricane
"Mom, I can't believe you're saying that. You treat that Coupe Deville like it's a member of the family."
"But I'm a woman, darling. I'm supposed to feel that way about my Deville.”
― The Green-Eyed Hurricane
“I had never read a book written by an African-American. I didn't know that black people could write books. I didn't know that blacks had done any great things. I was always conscious of my inferiority and I always remembered my place - until the Civil Rights Movement came to the town where I was born and grew up.”
― From the Mississippi Delta: A Memoir
― From the Mississippi Delta: A Memoir
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