Civil rights movement Quote by Augusta Scattergood

“And this is the library,” Mrs. Simcosky said, leading Beth into a generous room with a fire flickering in a river rock fireplace. “Or,…

— Trish McCallan

“You see, Brother William,” the abbot said, “to achieve the immense and holy task that enriches those walls”—and he nodded toward the bulk of…

— Umberto Eco

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

— 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…

— Augusta Scattergood

“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…

— Augusta Scattergood

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

— Larry Brown

“It may sound funny, but I love the South. I don't choose to live anywhere else. There's land here, where a man can raise…

— Myrlie Evers-Williams

“It never registered to them that I had time to read all of Balzac, Dickens, and Stendhal while Papa was dying, not to mention…

— Elizabeth Spencer

“We know You love us. We love You, too. I mean, six, seven thousand years from now . . . won't make no difference,…

— Larry Brown

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

— Ellen Gilchrist

“People hear whispers as loud as guns.”

— Elizabeth Spencer

“Love don't just go away like that, Cille," Sandman said. "It do.”

— Jesmyn Ward