"There is no trickier subject for a writer……" — Kathryn Stockett
"There is no trickier subject for a writer from the South than that of affection between a black person and a white one in the unequal world of segregation. For the dishonesty upon which a society is founded makes every emotion suspect, makes it impossible to know whether what flowed between two people was honest feeling or pity or pragmatism.(Howell Raines's Pulitzer Prize winning article "Grady's Gift")-Sockett admired this quote and used it in her summary..."
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107 Quotes by Kathryn Stockett
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Some readers tell me, 'We always treated our maid like she was a member of the family.' You know, that's…
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As children, we looked up to our maids and our nannies, who were playing in some ways the role of…
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I grew up in the 1970s, but I don't think a whole lot had changed from the '60s. Oh, it…
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Having a separate bathroom for the black domestic was just the way things were done. It had faded out in…
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I have never been more proud of the United States than I am this year. We have elected an African-American…
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I reckon that’s the risk you run, letting somebody else raise you chilluns.
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I do wish that people talked about the subject of race, especially in the South,
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Wasn't that the point of the book? For women to realize, We are just two people. Not that much separates…
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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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Miss Leefolt sigh, hang up the phone like she just don't know how her brain gone operate without Miss Hilly…
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....we ain't doing civil rights here. We just telling stories like they really happen.
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I've become one of those people who prowl around at night in their cars. God, I am the town's Boo…
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