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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

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Kathryn Stockett
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 1
Novelist
Writer
Jackson
Mississippi
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White
Speck
Black
Specks
Mother
Uniform
Night
Uniforms
Thought
Dirt
Without
Shame
Work
Pay
Smudge
Always
Color
Ironed

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I reckon that’s the risk you run, letting somebody else raise you chilluns.
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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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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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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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...and that's when I get to wondering, what would happen if I told her she something good, ever day?
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