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“Atticus said, “I can take anything anybody calls me so long as it’s not true.”
― Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman

“Fiction gives us empathy: It puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gift of seeing through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.”
― Ray Bradbury , Fahrenheit 451

“Obviously, you can't control everything, but you are obliged to take care of the few things you can. I'm an optimist, basically, who acts like a pessimist. On principle. Just in case.”
― Russell Banks, The Sweet Hereafter

“You’re color blind, Jean Louise,” he said. “You always have been, you always will be. The only differences you see between one human and another are differences in looks and intelligence and character and the like. You’ve never been prodded to look at people as a race, and now that race is the burning issue of the day, you’re still unable to think racially. You see only people.”
― Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman