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….

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….

Rich folk don't try so hard.

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….

...and that's when I get to wondering, what would happen if I told her she something good, ever day?.

Having a separate bathroom for the black domestic was just the way things were done. It had faded out in new homes by the time the '70s and '80s roll….

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….

...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….

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 singi….

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

I have never been more proud of the United States than I am this year. We have elected an African-American president. We have the stellar Michelle Ob….

Down in the national news section, there's an article on a new pill, the 'Valium' they're calling it, 'to help women cope with everyday challenges.' ….

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….

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?.

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 ….

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

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..

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 intend to stay on her like hair on soap..

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 th….