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, any….

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 cryi….

I do wish that people talked about the subject of race, especially in the South..

You're gon' have to say to your self, am I gon' believe what them fools say about me today?.

If singing was a color, it would've been the color of that chocolate..

Rich folk don't try so hard.

Her nose wrinkle up cause now she got to remember to say she Mae Mobley Three, when her whole life she can remember, she been telling people she Mae ….

Cause everbody care. Black, white, deep down we all do..

They say it's like true love, good help. You only get one in a lifetime..

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..

The point is, I can’t tell you how to succeed. But I can tell you how not to: Give in to the shame of being rejected and put your manuscript—or paint….

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. Bu….

I may not remember my name or what country I live in, but you and that pie is something I will never forget..

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..

Im a Southerner - I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve..

Everyone knows how we white people feel, the glorified Mammy figure who dedicates her whole life to a white family. Margaret Mitchell covered that. B….

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….

I want to yell so loud that Baby Girl can hear me that dirty ain't a color, disease ain't the Negro side a town. I want to stop that moment from comi….

I give in and light another cigarette even though last night the surgeon general came on the television set and shook his finger at everybody, trying….

Womens, they ain't like men. A woman ain't gone beat you with a stick. Miss Hilly wouldn't pull no pistol on me. Miss Leefolt wouldn't come burn my h….

I've become one of those people who prowl around at night in their cars. God, I am the town's Boo Radley, just like in To Kill A Mockingbird..