"Demetrie came to wait on my grandmother in……" — Kathryn Stockett
"Demetrie came to wait on my grandmother in 1955 and stayed for 32 years. It was common, in Mississippi, to have a black domestic cleaning the kitchen, cooking the meals, looking after the white children."
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107 Quotes by Kathryn Stockett
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I reckon that’s the risk you run, letting somebody else raise you chilluns.
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....we ain't doing civil rights here. We just telling stories like they really happen.
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