"I listened wide-eyed, stupid. Glowing by her voice……" — Kathryn Stockett
"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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Kathryn Stockett
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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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Everyone knows how we white people feel, the glorified Mammy figure who dedicates her whole life to a white family.…
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....we ain't doing civil rights here. We just telling stories like they really happen.
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