{"author":"Kathryn Stockett","author_id":"Kathryn+Stockett","total_quotes":41,"quotes":[{"text":"I want to yell so loud that Baby Girl can hear me that dirty ain't a color, disease ain't the Negro side a town. I want to stop that moment from coming - and it come in ever white child's life - when they start to think that colored folks ain't as good as whites. ... I pray that wasn't her moment, Pray I still got time.","author":"Kathryn Stockett","tags":["racism"],"id":1573,"author_id":"Kathryn+Stockett"},{"text":"As I wrote, I found that Aibileen had some things to say that really weren't in her character. She was older, soft-spoken, and she started showing some attitude.","author":"Kathryn Stockett","tags":["character","she","her "],"id":8235,"author_id":"Kathryn+Stockett"},{"text":"That white uniform was her 'pass' to get into white places with us - the grocery store, the state fair, the movies. Even though this was the 70s and the segregation laws had changed, the 'rules' had not.","author":"Kathryn Stockett","tags":["rules","uniform","her "],"id":11318,"author_id":"Kathryn+Stockett"},{"text":"Once upon a time they was two girls,' I say. 'one girl had black skin, one girl had white.'Mae Mobley look up at me. She listening.'Little colored girl say to little white girl, 'How come your skin be so pale?' White girl say, 'I don't know. How come your skin be so black? What you think that mean?''But neither one a them little girls knew. So little white girl say, 'Well, let's see. You got hair, I got hair.''I gives Mae Mobley a little tousle on her head.'Little colored girl say 'I got a nose, you got a nose.''I gives her little snout a tweak. She got to reach up and do the same to me.'Little white girl say, 'I got toes, you got toes.' And I do the little thing with her toes, but she can't get to mine cause I got my white work shoes on.''So we's the same. Just a different color', say that little colored girl. The little white girl she agreed and they was friends. The End.'Baby Girl just look at me. Law, that was a sorry story if I ever heard one. Wasn't even no plot to it. But Mae Mobley, she smile and say, 'Tell it again.","author":"Kathryn Stockett","tags":["equality","friendship","race","racism"],"id":15966,"author_id":"Kathryn+Stockett"},{"text":"I haven’t had the chance to look at too many men’s faces up close. And I noticed how his skin was thicker than mine, and a gorgeous shade of toast. The stiff blond hairs on his cheeks and chin seemed to be growing before my eyes. He smelled like starch. Like pine. His nose wasn’t so pointy afterall. …And 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 single thing in my body-my skin, my collarbone, the hollow backs of my knees, everything inside of me filled up with light.","author":"Kathryn Stockett","tags":["first-love","kissing","men"],"id":18734,"author_id":"Kathryn+Stockett"},{"text":"You is kind. You is smart. You is important.","author":"Kathryn Stockett","tags":["inspirational"],"id":21669,"author_id":"Kathryn+Stockett"},{"text":"I used to believe in 'em [lines]. I don't anymore. They in our heads. People like Miss Hilly is always trying to make us believe they there. But they ain't.' - Aibileen.","author":"Kathryn Stockett","tags":["color","race","society"],"id":70067,"author_id":"Kathryn+Stockett"},{"text":"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.","author":"Kathryn Stockett","tags":["truth"],"id":77027,"author_id":"Kathryn+Stockett"},{"text":"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, anymore.","author":"Kathryn Stockett","tags":["bitterness","depression","sadness"],"id":78664,"author_id":"Kathryn+Stockett"},{"text":"We look at each other a second. ' I'm tired of the rules,' I say. Aibileen chuckles and looks out the window. I realise how thin this revelation must sound to her.","author":"Kathryn Stockett","tags":["prejudice","racism","society"],"id":104427,"author_id":"Kathryn+Stockett"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":41,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}