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?
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. - Kathryn Stockett
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.
- Kathryn Stockett
Write about what disturbs you, particularly if it bothers no one else. - Kathryn Stockett
Write about what disturbs you, particularly if it bothers no one else.
Who knew paper and ink could be so vicious - Kathryn Stockett
Who knew paper and ink could be so vicious
Great books give you a feeling that you miss all day, until you finally get to crawl back inside those pages again. - Kathryn Stockett
Great books give you a feeling that you miss all day, until you finally get to crawl back inside those pages again.
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… - Kathryn Stockett
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…
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 segreg… - 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 segreg…
....I realized I actually had a choice in what I could believe. - Kathryn Stockett
....I realized I actually had a choice in what I could believe.
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 sa… - Kathryn Stockett
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 sa…
I was surprise to see the world didn't stop just cause my boy did. - Kathryn Stockett
I was surprise to see the world didn't stop just cause my boy did.
Login to join the discussion
Login to join the discussion