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....I realized I actually had a choice in what I could believe.

Kathryn Stockett

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Kathryn Stockett
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 1
Novelist
Writer
Jackson
Mississippi
Realized
Choice
Choices
Actually
Believe

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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.
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Ugly live up on the inside. Ugly be a hurtful, mean person.
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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.
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I do wish that people talked about the subject of race, especially in the South.
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I started writing it the day after Sept. 11. I was living in New York City. We didnt have any phone service and we didnt have any mail. Like a lot of writers do, I started to write in a voice that I missed.
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Baby Girl, I say. I need you remember everything I told you. Do you remember what I told you? She still crying steady, but the hiccups are gone. To wipe my bottom good when I'm done? No, baby, the other one. About who you are.
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Mississippi is like my mother. I am allowed to complain about her all I want, but God help the person who raises an ill word about her around me, unless she is their mother too.
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I'm sorry, but were you dropped on your head as an infant?
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...out of the blue, he kissed me. Right in the middle of the Robert E. Lee Hotel Restaurant, he kissed me so slowly with an open mouth and every single thing in my body-my skin, my collarbone, the hollow backs of my knees, everything inside of me filled up with light.
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Truth. It feels cool, like water washing over my sticky-hot body. Cooling a heat that's been burning me up all my life. Truth, I say inside my head again, just for that feeling.
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I always thought insanity would be a dark, bitter feeling, but it is drenching and delicious if you really roll around in it.
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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.
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...and that's when I get to wondering, what would happen if I told her she something good, ever day?
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When you little, you only get asked two questions, what’s your name and how old you is, so you better get em right.
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Im a Southerner - I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve.
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I have decided not to die.
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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 listened wide-eyed, stupid. Glowing by her voice in the dim light. If chocolate was a sound, it would've been Constantine's voice singing. If singing was a color, it would've been the color of that chocolate.
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All my life I'd been told what to believe about politics, coloreds, being a girl. But with Constantine's thumb pressed in my hand, I realized I actually had a choice in what I could believe.
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No one tells us, girls who don't go on dates, that remembering can be almost as good as what actually happens.
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