Kathryn Stockett - Black Quotes

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Lord, I never seen blue hair on a black woman before or since. Leroy say you look like a cracker from outer space.

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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 three months before I even looked out the window, see the world still there. I was surprised to see the world didn't stop.

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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 bill for. I guess that's when I understood what shame was and the color of it too. 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

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.

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