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Why don't we just build you an house outside Hilly?
Kathryn Stockett
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Kathryn Stockett
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 1
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I reckon that’s the risk you run, letting somebody else raise you chilluns.
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She already got the blue dress on I ironed this morning, the one with sixty-five pleats on the waist, so tiny I got to squint through my glasses to iron. I don’t hate much in life, but me and that dress is not on good terms.
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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 do wish that people talked about the subject of race, especially in the South.
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And if your friends make fun of you for chasing your dream, remember—just lie.
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They say it's like true love, good help. You only get one in a lifetime.
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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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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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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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it always sound scarier when a hollerer talk soft.
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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.
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It can be really powerful to write something when youre sad.
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Having a separate bathroom for the black domestic was just the way things were done. It had faded out in new homes by the time the '70s and '80s rolled up.
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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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I intend to stay on her like hair on soap.
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Im a Southerner - I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve.
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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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....I realized I actually had a choice in what I could believe.
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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.
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