That's all a grit is, a vehicle. For whatever it is you rather be eating..

...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 sing….

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 thre….

I always thought insanity would be a dark, bitter feeling, but it is drenching and delicious if you really roll around in it..

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 bi….

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….

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….

I don't know what to say to her. All I know is, I ain't saying it. And I know she ain't saying what she want a say either and it's a strange thing ha….

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

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….

I grew up in the 1970s, but I don't think a whole lot had changed from the '60s. Oh, it had changed in the law books - but not in the kitchens of whi….

Bosoms are for bedrooms and breastfeeding..

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..

She's wearing a tight red sweater and a red skirt and enough makeup to scare a hooker..

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….

They say it's like true love, good help. you only get one in a lifetime.....there is so much you don't know about a person. i wonder if i could've ma….

Who knew heartbreak would be so goddamn hot..

Mississippi is like my mother. I am allowed to complain about her all I want, but God help the person who raises an ill word about her around me, unl….

...My sister Doreena who never lifted a royal finger growing up because she had the heart defect that we later found out was a fly on the X-ray machi….

When you little, you only get asked two questions, what’s your name and how old you is, so you better get em right..

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..