Kathryn Stockett Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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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 us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought.”
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“Write about what disturbs you, particularly if it bothers no one else.”
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“I have decided not to die.”
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“I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they must be good.”
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“Ever morning, until you dead in the ground, you gone have to make this decision. You gone have to ask yourself, "Am I gone believe what them fools say about me today?”
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“....I realized I actually had a choice in what I could believe.”
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“...and that's when I get to wondering, what would happen if I told her she something good, ever day?”
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“Oh, it was delicious to have someone to keep secrets with. If I'd had a sister or a brother closer in age, I guessed that's what it would be like. But it wasn't just smoking or skirting around Mother. It was having someone look at you after your mother has nearly fretted herself to death because you are freakishly tall and frizzy and odd. Someone whose eyes simply said, without words, You are fine with me.”
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“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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“I always thought insanity would be a dark, bitter feeling, but it is drenching and delicious if you really roll around in it.”
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“Cause everbody care. Black, white, deep down we all do.”
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“I started writing it the day after Sept. 11. I was living in New York City. We didnt have any phone service and we didnt have any mail. Like a lot of writers do, I started to write in a voice that I missed.”
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“Im a Southerner - I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve.”
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“When you little, you only get asked two questions, what’s your name and how old you is, so you better get em right.”
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“Who knew heartbreak would be so goddamn hot.”
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“Bosoms are for bedrooms and breastfeeding.”
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“Rule Number One for working for a white lady, Minny: it is nobody’s business. You keep your nose out of your White Lady’s problems, you don’t go crying to her with yours—you can’t pay the light bill? Your feet are too sore? Remember one thing: white people are not your friends. They don’t want to hear about it. And when Miss White Lady catches her man with the lady next door, you keep out of it, you hear me?”
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“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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“President Kennedy’s assassination, less than two weeks ago, has struck the world dumb. It’s like no one wants to be the first to break the silence. Nothing seems important.”
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“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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“I'm pretty sure I can say that no one in my family ever asked Demetrie what it felt like to be black in Mississippi, working for our white family. It never occurred to us to ask. It was everyday life. It wasn't something people felt compelled to examine. I have wished, for many years, that I'd been old enough and thoughtful enough to ask Demetrie that question. She died when I was sixteen. I've spent years imagining what her answer would be. And that is why I wrote this book.”
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“Because ain’t that white people for you, wondering if they are happy enough.”
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“I come home that morning, after I been fired, and stood outside my house with my new work shoes on. The shoes my mama paid a month's worth a light bill for. I guess that's when I understood what shame was and the color of it too. Shame ain't black, like dirt, like I always thought it was. Shame be the color of a new white uniform your mother ironed all night to pay for, white without a smudge or a speck a work-dirt on it.”
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“...out of the blue, he kissed me. Right in the middle of the Robert E. Lee Hotel Restaurant, he kissed me so slowly with an open mouth and every single thing in my body-my skin, my collarbone, the hollow backs of my knees, everything inside of me filled up with light.”
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“She dumb.” I sigh. “But she ain’t stupid.”
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“I intend to stay on her like hair on soap.”
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“It's already 95 degrees outside. Mississippi got the most unorganized weather in the nation.”
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“Mother calls up the stairs to ask what in the world I'm typing up there all day and I holler down, 'Just typing up some notes from the Bible study. Just writing down all the things I love about Jesus.”
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“This woman talk like she from so deep in the country she got corn growing in her shoes.”
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“Stuart stands and says, 'Come here,' and he's on my side of the room in one stride and he claps my hands to his hips and kisses my mouth like I am the drink he's been dying for all day and I've heard girls say it's like melting, that feeling. But I think it's like rising, growing even taller and seeing sights over a hedge, colors you've never seen before.”
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