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Kathryn Stockett is an American novelist born in 1969. Her debut novel, 'The Help,' published in 2011, quickly became a bestseller and was adapted into a film of the same name. Set in the American South during the 1960s, the novel tells the story of the relationship between black maids and white authors, exploring issues of race relations and social justice.

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“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.”

Looks Persons School Black Born White Half Population Neighbor Mississippi Black Person Jackson Mississippi

Author:Kathryn Stockett

“Cause everbody care. Black, white, deep down we all do.”

Care Causes Black White Deep Down Black White

Book:The Help

Source: The Help

“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.”

Ifs Book States Order Black Be Good California Dealer Mississippi Banned Banned Books

Book:The Help

Source: The Help

“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.”

Home Light Mother Night House Black White Pay Morning Color Months Understood Paid Shame Bills Shoes Coming Home Uniforms Dirt All Night Mama Specks Morning After New Work

Book:The Help

Source: The Help

“I used to believe in em (lines). I don't anymore. They in our heads. Lines between black and white ain't there neither. Some folks just made those up, long time ago. And that go for the white trash and the so-ciety ladies too.”

Believe Long Made Used Black Lines White Long Time Folks Ems Black And White Trash Long Time Ago White Trash

Author: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 segregation. For the dishonesty upon which a society is founded makes every emotion suspect, makes it impossible to know whether what flowed between two people was honest feeling or pity or pragmatism.(Howell Raines's Pulitzer Prize winning article "Grady's Gift")-Sockett admired this quote and used it in her summary.”

Source: The Help

“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.”

World Stills Whole Three House Black Sun Air Wall Months Bed Window Tragedy Whole World Three Months

Author:Kathryn Stockett

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

Looks Black Space Lord Hair Blue Black Women Outer Space Crackers Blue Hair

Book:The Help

Source: The Help

“I'm pretty sure I can say that no one in my family ever asked Demetrie what it felt like to be black in Mississippi, working for our white family. It never occurred to us to ask. It was everyday life. It wasn't something people felt compelled to examine. I have wished, for many years, that I'd been old enough and thoughtful enough to ask Demetrie that question. She died when I was sixteen. I've spent years imagining what her answer would be. And that is why I wrote this book.”

People Years I Can Book Enough Would Be Asks Felt Black White Answers My Family Died Everyday Thoughtful Everyday Life Compelled Sixteen Mississippi

Author:Kathryn Stockett

“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.”

Mother Night Black White Pay Color Shame Uniforms Dirt All Night Specks

Book:The Help

Source: The Help

“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.”

Way Done Home Black 80s Bathroom Faded New Home

Author:Kathryn Stockett

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Born: 1969
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 142

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