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it always sound scarier when a hollerer talk soft.
Kathryn Stockett
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Kathryn Stockett
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 1
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Mother calls up the stairs to ask what in the world I'm typing up there all day and I holler down, 'Just typing up some notes from the Bible study. Just writing down all the things I love about Jesus.
Kathryn Stockett
That was the day my whole world went black. Air looked black. Sun looked black. I laid up in bed and stared at the black walls of my house….Took three months before I even looked out the window, see the world still there. I was surprised to see the world didn’t stop.
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I intend to stay on her like hair on soap.
Kathryn Stockett
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
This woman talk like she from so deep in the country she got corn growing in her shoes.
Kathryn Stockett
They say it's like true love, good help. You only get one in a lifetime.
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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
As children, we looked up to our maids and our nannies, who were playing in some ways the role of our mothers. They were paid to be nice to us, to look after us, teach us things and take time out of their day to be with us. As a child you think of these people as an extension of your mother.
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I reckon that’s the risk you run, letting somebody else raise you chilluns.
Kathryn Stockett
I'm sorry, but were you dropped on your head as an infant?
Kathryn Stockett
I hear Raleigh's new accounting business isn't doing well. Maybe up in New York or somewhere it's a good thing, but in Jackson, Mississippi, people just don't care to do business with a rude, condescending asshole.
Kathryn Stockett
....we ain't doing civil rights here. We just telling stories like they really happen.
Kathryn Stockett
It can be really powerful to write something when youre sad.
Kathryn Stockett
...and that's when I get to wondering, what would happen if I told her she something good, ever day?
Kathryn Stockett
I was surprise to see the world didn't stop just cause my boy did.
Kathryn Stockett
Im a Southerner - I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve.
Kathryn Stockett
And if your friends make fun of you for chasing your dream, remember—just lie.
Kathryn Stockett
Some readers tell me, 'We always treated our maid like she was a member of the family.' You know, that's interesting, but I wonder what your maid's perspective was on that.
Kathryn Stockett
I used to believe in em (lines). I don't anymore. They in our heads. Lines between black and white ain't there neither. Some folks just made those up, long time ago. And that go for the white trash and the so-ciety ladies too.
Kathryn Stockett
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