I think I'm a very religious person. I think I believe in God as much as any man does. I don't only believe in God, I know there's God.

The sharecropper may lower his eyes, but not because he's less of a man. That's just a condition of society that such things exist.

I like the sound of people's voices, and I think what a man says can very well tell what he's thinking, whether he's lying or not.

How do people come up with a date and a time to take life from another man? Who made them God?

I still don't even know if the sheriff will let me see him. And suppose he did; what then? What do I say to him? Do I know what a man is? Do I know how a man is supposed to die? I'm still trying to find out how a man should live. Am I supposed to tell someone how to die who has never lived?