Quote

Everyone knows how we white people feel, the glorified Mammy figure who dedicates her whole life to a white family. Margaret Mitchell covered that. But no one ever asked Mammy how she felt about it.

Kathryn Stockett

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Kathryn Stockett
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 1
Novelist
Writer
Jackson
Mississippi
Everyone
Glorified
Felt
Margaret
Ever
Covered
Whole
Figure
Feel
Figures
Feels
Asked
Dedicates
Life
Family
Mammy
People
White
Mitchell

More quotes by Kathryn Stockett

Image
I was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1969, in a time and place where no one was saying, Look how far weve come, because we hadnt come very far, to say the least. Although Jacksons population was half white and half black, I didnt have a single black friend or a black neighbor or even a black person in my school.
Kathryn Stockett
Image
I want to yell so loud that Baby Girl can hear me that dirty ain't a color, disease ain't the Negro side a town. I want to stop that moment from coming - and it come in ever white child's life - when they start to think that colored folks ain't as good as whites. ... I pray that wasn't her moment, Pray I still got time.
Kathryn Stockett
Image
I do wish that people talked about the subject of race, especially in the South.
Kathryn Stockett
Image
Sorry is the fool who ever underestimates my mother.
Kathryn Stockett
Image
I reckon that’s the risk you run, letting somebody else raise you chilluns.
Kathryn Stockett
Image
When you little, you only get asked two questions, what’s your name and how old you is, so you better get em right.
Kathryn Stockett
Image
And if your friends make fun of you for chasing your dream, remember—just lie.
Kathryn Stockett
Image
The day your child says she hates you, and every child will go through the phase, it kicks like a foot in the stomach.
Kathryn Stockett
Image
Ever morning, until you dead in the ground, you gone have to make this decision. You gone have to ask yourself, Am I gone believe what them fools say about me today?
Kathryn Stockett
Image
I have decided not to die.
Kathryn Stockett
Image
Only three things them ladies talk about: they kids, they clothes, and they friends. I hear the word Kennedy, I know they ain’t discussing no politic. They talking about what Miss Jackie done wore on the tee-vee.
Kathryn Stockett
Image
...and that's when I get to wondering, what would happen if I told her she something good, ever day?
Kathryn Stockett
Image
It can be really powerful to write something when youre sad.
Kathryn Stockett
Image
No one tells us, girls who don't go on dates, that remembering can be almost as good as what actually happens.
Kathryn Stockett
Image
I was surprise to see the world didn't stop just cause my boy did.
Kathryn Stockett
Image
I nursed a worthless, pint drinker for twelve years and when my lazy, life-sucking, daddy finally died, I swore to God with tears in my eyes I'd never marry one. And then I did.
Kathryn Stockett
Image
....we ain't doing civil rights here. We just telling stories like they really happen.
Kathryn Stockett
Image
Shame ain't black, like dirt, like I always thought it was. Shame be the color of a new white uniform your mother ironed all night to pay for, white without a smudge or a speck a work-dirt on it.
Kathryn Stockett
Image
I've become one of those people who prowl around at night in their cars. God, I am the town's Boo Radley, just like in To Kill A Mockingbird.
Kathryn Stockett
Image
Ugly live up on the inside. Ugly be a hurtful, mean person.
Kathryn Stockett