Top 30 K Stockett Quotes
#1. But certainly in my grandmother's time - and when I was growing up, yeah, Demetrie's bathroom was on the side of the house, it was a separate door. Still, to this day, I've never been in that room.
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#2. I think about how no one in the car would come out and say it. We all know about these laws, we live here, but we don't talk about them. This is the first time I've ever seen them written down.
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#3. Great books give you a feeling that you miss all day, until you finally get to crawl back inside those pages again.
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#4. I want to read what you're thinking. I'm pretty sure it's not about housekeeping.
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#5. Got to be the worst place in the world, inside a oven. You in here, you either cleaning or you getting cooked.
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#7. I feel like I'm selling something nobody want to buy. Something big and stinky, like Kiki Brown and her lemon smell-good polish. But what really makes me and Kiki the same is, I'm proud a what I'm selling. I can't help it. We telling stories that need to be told.
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#9. A course we different! Everybody know colored people and white people ain't the same. But we still just people.
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#11. How tall are you, Constantine?" I asked, unable to hide my tears.
Constantine narrowed her eyes at me.
"How tall is you?"
"Five-eleven," I cried. "I'm already taller than the boys' basketball coach."
"Well, I'm five-thirteen, so quit feeling sorry for yourself.
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#12. 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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#14. That white uniform was her 'pass' to get into white places with us - the grocery store, the state fair, the movies. Even though this was the 70s and the segregation laws had changed, the 'rules' had not.
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#16. She got a confused, disgusted look on her face, like she done salted her coffee instead a sugared it.
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#17. Babies like fat. Like to bury they face up in you armpit and go to sleep. They like big fat legs too. That I know.
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#18. Miss Skeeter say maybe don't spec nothing at all, that most Southern peoples is "repressed." If they feel something, they might not say a word. Just hold they breath and wait for it to pass, like gas.
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#19. Mississippi and the world is two different places,' the Deacon say and we all nod cause ain't it the truth.
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#20. We ain't doing civil rights here. We just telling stories like they really happen.
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#21. I tucked this away, afraid to admit how good it was to hear it.
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#22. She kind a laugh and it hurts my heart. Because everbody care. Black, white, deep down we all do.
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#25. 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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#26. I may not remember my name or what country I live in, but you and that pie is something I will never forget.
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#28. I am looking for a future for myself. I like to hear about the possibilities of others.
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#29. For a minute, we're just two people wondering why things are the way they are.
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#30. I have never been more proud of the United States than I am this year. We have elected an African-American president. We have the stellar Michelle Obama setting the standard for American women. I simply cannot say it enough: look how far we've come.
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