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Harper Lee (born April 28, 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama, as Nelle Harper Lee) is an American novelist, best known for her 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird. · Can we improve this biography or this incorrect? Post your own bio in the forums. Explore books and films about Lee, Harper.

"Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do. It aggravates em. You're not gonna change any of them by talking right, they've got to want to learn themselves, and when they don't want to learn there's nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language."

Lee, Harper on Example
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"I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system -- that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality. Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up."

Lee, Harper on Juries
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"As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it -- whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash."

Lee, Harper on Race and Racism
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"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."

Lee, Harper on Books - Reading
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"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view."

Lee, Harper on Understanding
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"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."

Lee, Harper on Conscience
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"Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."

Lee, Harper on Courage
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