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 SpencerTags: happiness love children mississippi-authors
It never registered to them that I had time to read all of Balzac, Dickens, and Stendhal while Papa was dying, not to mention everything in the city library after Mother's operation. It would have been exactly the same to them if I had read through all twenty-six volumes of Elsie Dinsmore. (The White Azalea)
Elizabeth SpencerTags: reading mississippi-authors
The road lay long and black ahead of them and the heat was coming now through the thin soles of their shoes. There were young beans pushing up from the dry brown fields, tiny rows of green sprigs that stretched away in the distance.
Larry BrownTags: weather mississippi-authors
The boy didn't know where he and his family were, other than one name: Mississippi.
Larry BrownTags: mississippi-authors
I told him. We got a library here. Got plenty of good books, too. -Larry Brown, Dirty Work
Larry BrownTags: libraries books mississippi-authors
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 BrownTags: love race mississippi-authors
It was spring when it happened and the schoolroom windows were open all day long, and every afternoon after Billy left we had milk from little waxy cartons and Mrs. Jansma would read us chapters from a wonderful book about some children in England that had a bed that took them places at night.
Ellen GilchristTags: reading school spring mississippi-authors
She was always saying things like that but I let her be my best friend anyway.
Ellen GilchristTags: friends mississippi-authors
Libraries are about books. Books have no color. And they don't care who reads them.
Augusta ScattergoodTags: libraries books civil-rights race mississippi-authors
I sat there listening to "We Shall Overcome," looking out of the window at the passing Mississippi landscape.
Anne MoodyTags: civil-rights-movement mississippi-authors
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