Gianna

“The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a court-room, be he any colour of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box. 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, that white man is trash.”
― Harper Lee, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

“I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background........Beside the waters of the Hudson" I feel my race. Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept, but through it all, I remain myself. When covered by the waters, I am; and the ebb but reveals me again." How It Feels to Be Colored Me”
― Zora Neale Hurston

“Atticus told me one time that most of this Old Family stuff‘s foolishness because everybody‘s family‘s just as old as everybody else‘s.”
― Harper Lee, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird: Bloom's Guides

“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God