“It was one of those late summer days trying its best to convince everyone that winter would never seep through and ravage the earth.”— A.J. Waines Related Quotes “The needs of a society determine its ethics, and in the Black American ghettos the hero is that man who is offered only the crumbs from his country’s table but by ingenuity and courage is able to take for himself a Lucullan feast. Hence the janitor who lives in one room but sports a robin’s-egg-blue Cadillac is not laughed at but admired, and the domestic who buys forty-dollar shoes is not criticized but is appreciated. We know that they have put to use their full mental and physical powers. Each single gain feeds into the gains of the body collective.”— Maya Angelou “People who go to jail breed people who go to jail.”— Andrew Barrett “He was not looking forward to breaking the law. He was straight now. He’d matured. Crime no longer excited him.What?’ Ronald said.I didn’t say anything.’You’re breathing heavy.”— Jennifer Crusie