“He’s locked up again. No bail has been set or nothing. He’s a young man

“He’s locked up again. No bail has been set or nothing. He’s a young man who’s been thrown in jail again and again, and he just has to take it.”

Marcus Jones

Whose 17-year-old son Mychal Bell was sent back to jail in Jena, La., on charges that the fight that put him in the national spotlight violated terms of his probation for a
previous conviction.

“I’m already thinking about all the people who are going to send me begging letters — I can see them lining up now.”

British author Doris Lessing

On the $1.5 million cash award she’ll
receive as winner of the Nobel Prize for literature.