12 Quotes About Mississippi Author

His house to me was a child was a heart of happiness. If there is a wonder childhood possesses which makes it forever superior to what shall come after, it is the happy and uncritical love of whatever is happy, place or person, it does not matter which. Elizabeth Spencer

She was always saying things like that but I let her be my best friend anyway. Ellen Gilchrist

But the book! The siren song of the book! Ellen Douglas

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. Unknown

Libraries are about books. Books have no color. And they don't care who reads them. Augusta Scattergood

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? Larry Brown

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) Larry Brown

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. Augusta Scattergood

I told him. We got a library here. Got plenty of good books, too. -Larry Brown, Dirty Work Larry Brown

I walked straight to the library. Mrs. Bloom, the librarian, always knows everything. Augusta Scattergood

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. Augusta Scattergood