5 Kathryn Stockett Black Quotes

Kathryn Stockett
” 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. “


” Your white uniform as a black domestic was your ticket anywhere in town. “


” I’m a Southerner – I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve. I guess if I’m forced to find a good side, I’m glad that people are talking about an issue that hasn’t really been discussed all that much. I’m glad that people are talking about it from the black perspective and the white perspective. “


” I was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1969, in a time and place where no one was saying, ‘Look how far we’ve come,’ because we hadn’t come very far, to say the least. Although Jackson’s population was half white and half black, I didn’t have a single black friend or a black neighbor or even a black person in my school. “


” Demetrie came to wait on my grandmother in 1955 and stayed for 32 years. It was common, in Mississippi, to have a black domestic cleaning the kitchen, cooking the meals, looking after the white children. “



All 5 Kathryn Stockett Quotes about Black in picture


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
Your white uniform as a black domestic was your ticket anywhere in town.


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I was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1969, in a time and place where no one was saying,
Demetrie came to wait on my grandmother in 1955 and stayed for 32 years. It was common, in Mississippi, to have a black domestic cleaning the kitchen, cooking the meals, looking after the white children.
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