But you see they could never understand that I live like I do because that's the way I want to live.
It ain't honest, Mr Raymond, making yourself badder'n you are already.
It ain't honnest but it's mighty helpful to folks. Secretly I'm not much of a drinker.
Cry about the hell white people give coloured folks, without even stopping to think that they're people, too.
Cry about the simple hell people give other people without even thinking.
And what did she do? She tempted a Negro. She was white, and she tempted a Negro.
She did something that in our society is unspeakable: she kissed a black man.
She is the victim of cruel poverty and ignorance, but I cannot pity her: she is white.
an assumption one associates with minds of their calibre
which, gentlemen, we know is in itself a lie as black as Tom Robinson's skin, a lie I do not have to point out to you.
-the evil assumptions that all Negroes lie, that all Negroes are basically immoral beings, that all Negroes men are not to be trusted around our women,
