#white

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

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

People say I'm the white Aretha Franklin. I wish I was her. ↗

— Joss Stone

#aretha franklin #franklin #her #i #i wish

I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat. ↗

— J. Michael Straczynski

#getting #head #heat #i #i can

If you write something the White House doesn't like, they take you in and say, 'If you ever write something like you did today, nobody from the White House will ever talk to you again,' ↗

— Ron Suskind

#did #ever #house #like #nobody

No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#america #barred #battle #been #colored

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#carry #house #i #nixon #only