Kill A Mockingbird quotes

Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end.

I had a hat. It was not all a hat,-Part of the brim was gone:Yet still I wore it on.

As a teen, I had no idea what the self was. Changing skin like a chameleon came naturally to me, but the self felt like a plastic chair in an airport where I'd have to sit and wait for the next radical character to define who I'd be that season. Acting grabbed me by the gut.

I spent many years working for voting rights, but we still see sophisticated efforts, led by white officials, to disenfranchise black voters in local and national elections.

I want my reputation to be judged on how I tackle the problem of ice if I'm elected as the member for Canning.

You play Bach your way, and I’ll play him his way.

If you see everything through hovercams and feed stories, you wind up blind to what's right in front of you.

And by anarchist spirit I mean that deeply human sentiment, which aims at the good of all, freedom and justice for all, solidarity and love among the people; which is not an exclusive characteristic only of self-declared anarchists, but inspires all people who have a generous heart and an open mind...

You know, for every dollar a man makes a woman makes 63 cents. Now, fifty years ago that was 62 cents. So, with that kind of luck, it’ll be the year 3,888 before we make a buck.

If I'm being forced to do something I don't want to do, my real self comes out. But whether or not I'm aware of it, no matter what happens, I'm always going to have a fake self and I'm not going to judge my fake self.