Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

I would come, many years later, to understand why “To Kill A Mockingbird" is considered “an important novel," but when I first read it at 11, I was simply absorbed by the way it evoked the mysteries of childhood, of treasures discovered in trees, and games played with an exotic summer friend.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Hummingbird, Seals and Crofts

Mockingbird, Carly Simon and James Taylor

Free Bird, Lynyrd Skynyrd

Eight Miles High, The Byrds

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