Frying chicken always makes me feel a little better about life. Kathryn Stockett More Quotes by Kathryn Stockett More Quotes From Kathryn Stockett 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. Kathryn Stockett mother writing jesus Baby Girl," I say. "I need you remember everything I told you. Do you remember what I told you?" She still crying steady, but the hiccups are gone. "To wipe my bottom good when I'm done?" "No, baby, the other one. About who you are. Kathryn Stockett remembers-everything girl baby I nursed a worthless, pint drinker for twelve years and when my lazy, life-sucking, daddy finally died, I swore to God with tears in my eyes I'd never marry one. And then I did. Kathryn Stockett eye nurse years 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. Kathryn Stockett mother white night If singing was a color, it would've been the color of that chocolate. Kathryn Stockett singing chocolate color As children, we looked up to our maids and our nannies, who were playing in some ways the role of our mothers. They were paid to be nice to us, to look after us, teach us things and take time out of their day to be with us. As a child you think of these people as an extension of your mother. Kathryn Stockett mothers-day inspiring children 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. Kathryn Stockett phones new-york writing Im a Southerner - I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve. Kathryn Stockett nerves touching satisfaction I was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1969, in a time and place where no one was saying, Look how far weve come, because we hadnt come very far, to say the least. Although Jacksons population was half white and half black, I didnt have a single black friend or a black neighbor or even a black person in my school. Kathryn Stockett black white school I do wish that people talked about the subject of race, especially in the South. Kathryn Stockett race wish people I reckon that’s the risk you run, letting somebody else raise you chilluns. Kathryn Stockett raises risk running 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 Obama setting the standard for American women. I simply cannot say it enough: look how far we've come. Kathryn Stockett african-american president years 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 rolled up. Kathryn Stockett black home way 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 made her days a little bit easier, if I'd tried. if i'd treated her a little nicer. Kathryn Stockett wonder helping littles I hear Raleigh's new accounting business isn't doing well. Maybe up in New York or somewhere it's a good thing, but in Jackson, Mississippi, people just don't care to do business with a rude, condescending asshole. Kathryn Stockett rude new-york people Some readers tell me, 'We always treated our maid like she was a member of the family.' You know, that's interesting, but I wonder what your maid's perspective was on that. Kathryn Stockett maids perspective interesting Everyone knows how we white people feel, the glorified Mammy figure who dedicates her whole life to a white family. Margaret Mitchell covered that. But no one ever asked Mammy how she felt about it. Kathryn Stockett figures white people And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed. Kathryn Stockett lines towns sometimes It can be really powerful to write something when youre sad. Kathryn Stockett really-powerful powerful writing Truth. It feels cool, like water washing over my sticky-hot body. Cooling a heat that's been burning me up all my life. Truth, I say inside my head again, just for that feeling. Kathryn Stockett hot feelings water
