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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

#be nice #child #children #day #extension

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. ↗

— Kathryn Stockett

#black #came #children #cleaning #common

I grew up in the 1970s, but I don't think a whole lot had changed from the '60s. Oh, it had changed in the law books - but not in the kitchens of white homes. ↗

— Kathryn Stockett

#changed #grew #had #homes #i

No, what is important is neither linearity or non-linearity, but the change, the degree of change from something that doesn't move to other events with different tempos in particular. ↗

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

#degree #different #events #important #move

One experiments and has to choose always the best results. ↗

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

#best #choose #experiments #results

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. ↗

— Kathryn Stockett

#because #black #born #come #even

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. ↗

— Kathryn Stockett

#been #black #discussed #find #forced

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. ↗

— Kathryn Stockett

#even #fair #get #grocery #grocery store

What a dichotomy. What conflicting ideas that we love and embrace these women, and entrust them to raise our children and to feed us and to bathe us, but we keep something as silly as a bathroom separate. ↗

— Kathryn Stockett

#bathroom #children #conflicting #dichotomy #embrace

What conflicting ideas that we love and embrace these women, and entrust them to raise our children and to feed us and to bathe us, but we keep something as silly as a bathroom separate. ↗

— Kathryn Stockett

#bathroom #children #conflicting #embrace #entrust