Top 100 Kathryn Stockett Quotes
#2. I can't speak for the Kathryn Stockett, but I would guess that she feels proud of the progress the South has made because, growing up, she experienced a very different Mississippi than the one that exists today.
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#3. 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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#5. 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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#6. 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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#7. I want to read what you're thinking. I'm pretty sure it's not about housekeeping.
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#8. 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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#10. 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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#12. A course we different! Everybody know colored people and white people ain't the same. But we still just people.
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#14. 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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#15. 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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#17. 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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#19. She got a confused, disgusted look on her face, like she done salted her coffee instead a sugared it.
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#20. 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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#21. 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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#22. 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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#23. We ain't doing civil rights here. We just telling stories like they really happen.
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#24. I tucked this away, afraid to admit how good it was to hear it.
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#25. She kind a laugh and it hurts my heart. Because everbody care. Black, white, deep down we all do.
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#27. 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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#28. 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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#30. I am looking for a future for myself. I like to hear about the possibilities of others.
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#31. For a minute, we're just two people wondering why things are the way they are.
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#32. I nursed a worthless, pint drinker for twelve years and when my lazy, life-sucking, daddy finally died, I swore to God with tears in my eyes I'd never marry one. And then I did.
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#34. Here's to new beginnings, Stuart says and raises his bourbon. I nod, sort of wanting to tell him that all beginnings are new.
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#36. You is smart, you is kind and you is important. From the book/movie "The Help
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#37. Sure, I dreamed of football dates, buy my real dream was that one day I would write something that people would actually read
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#38. Because I long to feel nothing. I want to be frozen inside. I want the icy cold to blow directly on my heart.
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#40. Be the prettiest book I ever seen. The cover is pale blue, color a the sky. And a big white bird - a peace dove - spreads its wings from end to end.
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#41. The first book you write because of the way it makes you feel. The second one you can't help but wonder how it's going to make the reader feel.
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#42. My sister Doreena who never lifted a royal finger growing up because she had the heart defect that we later found out was a fly on the X-ray machine.
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#43. He moves closer and leans down so I will look at him. And I feel sick, literally nauseated by the smell of bourbon on his breath. And yet I still want to fold myself up and put my entire body in his arms. I am loving him and hating him at the same time.
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#44. They ain't rich folk, that I know. Rich folk don't try so hard. I
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#45. 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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#46. I set her on her wooden baby seat so her little hiney don't fall in and soon as I turn my back, she off that pot running.
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#48. No, white women like to keep their hands clean. They got a shiny little set a tools they use, sharp as witches' fingernails, tidy and laid out neat, like the picks on a dentist tray. They gonna take they time with em.
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#49. Taking care a white babies, that's what I do, along with all the cooking and the cleaning. I done raised seventeen kids in my lifetime. I know how to get them babies to sleep, stop crying, and go in the toilet bowl before they mamas even get out a bed in the morning.
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#50. That's the way prayer do. It's like electricity, it keeps things going.
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#51. That's what I want them to know. Saying thank you, when you really mean it, when you remember what someone done for you
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#52. I sit in my little office and I feel like I've got all my readers staring at me.
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#53. What you learn today?" I ask even though she ain't in real school, just the pretend kind. Other day, when I ask her, she say, "Pilgrims. They came over and nothing would grow so they ate the Indians."
Now knew them Pilgrims didn't eat no Indians. But that ain't the point.
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#54. I think if you're president, color goes away completely: you're president and it doesn't matter if you're white, green or purple.
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#55. I wash my hands, wonder how an awful day could turn even worse. It seems like at some point you'd just run out of awful.
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#56. I don't know what to say to her. All I know is, I ain't saying it. And I know she ain't saying what she want a say either and it's a strange thing happening here cause nobody saying nothing and we still managing to have us a conversation.
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#57. What should we do about it?" asks Miss Celia.
We. God forgive me, but I wish there wasn't a "we" mixed up in this. (Minny)
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#58. Things ain't never gone change in this town , Aibileen. We living in hell. Our kids is trapped.
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#59. But after Mr. Evers got shot a week ago, lot a colored folk is frustrated in this town. Especially the younger ones, who ain't built up a callus yet.
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#62. If I'd played Mammy, I'd of told Scarlett to stick those green draperies up her white little pooper. Make her own damn man-catching dress. -Minny
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#63. It weren't too loo long before I seen something in me, had changed. A bitter seed was planted inside of me. And I just didn't feel so, accepting, anymore.
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#64. And that's when I get to wondering, what would happen if I told her she something good, ever day?
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#65. And if your friends make fun of you for chasing your dream, remember - just lie.
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#66. I don't know why the bad have to happen to the goodest ones,
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#67. Everyone knows how we white people feel, the glorified Mammy figure who dedicates her whole life to a white family. Margaret Mitchell covered that. But no one ever asked Mammy how she felt about it.
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#68. I'm sorry, but were you dropped on your head as an infant?
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#69. 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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#70. I am not spending my final days in a hospital, nor will I turn my own house into one." Doctor
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#71. There is nothing else to say, so I just murmur, "I know. Thank you for the chance." And I add, "Merry Christmas, Missus Stein."
"We call it Hanukkah, but thank you, Miss Phelan.
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#72. It can be really powerful to write something when you're sad.
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#73. But Lou Anne, she understood the point of the book before she even read it. The one who was missing the point this time was me.
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#75. Why? Why are you hitting me?"
He leaned down and looked me right in the face.
"If I didn't hit you Minny, who knows what you become.
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#76. When I grew older and awkward, when my parents divorced and life had gone all to hell, Demetrie stood me at the wardrobe mirror and told me over and over, 'You are beautiful. You are smart. You are important.' It was an incredible gift to give a child who thinks nothing of herself.
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#77. Sometimes people get a burst of strength. It's a gift from God, I guess. So they can finish their business.
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#78. It's mighty strange, without a doubt Nobody knows you when you're down and out
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#79. It's so hot, Mister Dunn's rooster walks in my door and squats his red self right in front of my kitchen fan. I come in to find him looking at me like 'I ain't moving nowhere, lady
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#80. They say it's like true love, good help. You only get one in a lifetime.
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#81. We done something brave and good here ... Maybe [we] don't want to be deprived a any a the things that go along with being brave and good. Even the bad.
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#82. When Demetrie got sick, we knew it was our responsibility to take care of her and pay her medical bills. And we embraced that. But the tricky part is, like so many families in the South, we also expected her to use a separate bathroom, to use separate utensils.
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#84. 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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#85. That's what I love about Aibileen, she can take the most complicated things in life and wrap them up so small and simple, they'll fit right in your pocket.
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#86. Lord, I never seen blue hair on a black woman before or since. Leroy say you look like a cracker from outer space.
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#87. 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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#89. 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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#90. She's wearing a tight red sweater and a red skirt and enough makeup to scare a hooker.
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#91. 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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#93. You're the smartest one in the class, Aibileen," she say. "And the only way you're going to keep sharp is to read and write every day.
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#94. She takes a deep breath through her nose and I see it. I see the white-trash girl she was ten years ago. She was strong. She didn't take no shit from nobody. Miss
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#96. I tell myself that's what you get when you put thirty-one toilets on the most popular girl's front yard. People tend to treat you a little differently than before.
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#97. Stuart needs "space" and "time," as if this were physics and not a human relationship.
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#98. By the time she a year old Mae Mobley following me around everwhere I go ... .Miss Leefolt, she'd narrow up her eyes at me like I done something wrong, unhitch that crying baby off my foot. I reckon that's the risk you run, letting somebody else raise you chilluns
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#99. Which means I have to lie to her on a daily basis, which is in itself enjoyable but a little degrading at the same time
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