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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.

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Kathryn Stockett
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 1
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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.
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Ugly live up on the inside. Ugly be a hurtful, mean person.
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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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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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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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Im a Southerner - I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve.
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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?
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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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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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This woman talk like she from so deep in the country she got corn growing in her shoes.
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....we ain't doing civil rights here. We just telling stories like they really happen.
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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.
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The day your child says she hates you, and every child will go through the phase, it kicks like a foot in the stomach.
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....I realized I actually had a choice in what I could believe.
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