Groveland Quotes

#1. Just days after the alleged rape, Florida newspapers were calling for capital punishment of the Groveland Boys. (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Visual Materials from the NAACP Records)

Gilbert King

#2. And yet we couldn't leave
it was if the rocks were holding us there. I mean, they were only rocks. But for some reason, those rocks made lonely feel good.

Cynthia Kadohata

#3. The best gift you can give me is a book.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. Keep an eye on that boy... he has potential

Mark Walden

#5. How could you reach the pearl by only looking at the sea? If you seek the pearl, be a diver: the diver needs several qualities: he must trust his rope and his life to the Friend's hand, he must stop breathing, and he must jump.

Rumi

#6. A Tory government with a decent mandate seems the only hope of tackling the fiscal catastrophe responsibly.

Max Hastings

#7. For every round peg society forces into a square hole, another brick is laid, building the walls that will eventually close us off from the possibility of living with purpose and passion.

Kathryn Perez

#8. He who is guilty of unseemliness with males will be under discipline for the same time as adulterers.

Saint Basil

#9. We are the next us.

Shawn Lukas

#10. Sooner or later the space program will need to save us by detecting and deflecting an incoming asteroid.

Nathan Myhrvold

#11. It is important if someone asks you to remember one of your happiest times to consider not only the question but also the questioner. If the question is asked by someone you love, it is fair to assume that this person hopes to feature in this recollection he has called forth.

Jenny Offill