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• 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.

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  Wall, Air, House

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• And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.

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  Lines, Towns, Sometimes

  "The Help". Book by Kathryn Stockett, February 10, 2009.

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• I tell myself that's what you get when you put thirty-one toilets on the most popular girl's front yard. People tend to treat you a little differently than before.

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  Girl, People, Yards

  Kathryn Stockett (2011). “The Help”, p.533, Penguin UK

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• Down in the national news section, there's an article on a new pill, the 'Valium' they're calling it, 'to help women cope with everyday challenges.' God, I could use about ten of those little pills right now.

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  Challenges, Everyday, Pills

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.245, Penguin

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• ...and that's when I get to wondering, what would happen if I told her she something good, ever day?

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  Wonder, Happens, Ifs

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.103, Penguin

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• I reckon that’s the risk you run, letting somebody else raise you chilluns.

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  Running, Risk, Raises

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.12, Penguin

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• Oh, it was delicious to have someone to keep secrets with. If I'd had a sister or a brother closer in age, I guessed that's what it would be like. But it wasn't just smoking or skirting around Mother. It was having someone look at you after your mother has nearly fretted herself to death because you are freakishly tall and frizzy and odd. Someone whose eyes simply said, without words, You are fine with me.

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  Mother, Brother, Eye

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.75, Penguin

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• Ugly live up on the inside. Ugly be a hurtful, mean person.

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  Mean, Hurtful, Ugly

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.73, Penguin

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• She's wearing a tight red sweater and a red skirt and enough makeup to scare a hooker.

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  Makeup, Sweaters, Scare

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.52, Penguin

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• ....we ain't doing civil rights here. We just telling stories like they really happen.

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  Rights, Stories, Happens

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.208, Penguin

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• I'm sorry, but were you dropped on your head as an infant?

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  Sorry, Infant, I'm Sorry

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.131, Penguin

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• 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.

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  Girl, Baby, Children

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.106, Penguin

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• No one tells us, girls who don't go on dates, that remembering can be almost as good as what actually happens.

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  Girl, Goes On, Remember

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.181, Penguin

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• Rule Number One for working for a white lady, Minny: it is nobody’s business. You keep your nose out of your White Lady’s problems, you don’t go crying to her with yours—you can’t pay the light bill? Your feet are too sore? Remember one thing: white people are not your friends. They don’t want to hear about it. And when Miss White Lady catches her man with the lady next door, you keep out of it, you hear me?

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  Men, Light, Doors

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.49, Penguin

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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.

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  School, White, Black

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• Bosoms are for bedrooms and breastfeeding.

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  Breastfeeding, Bedroom, Bosoms

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• That's the way prayer do. It's like electricity, it keeps things going.

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  Prayer, Way, Electricity

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.33, Penguin

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• I'm tired of the rules," I say.

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  Tired, I'm Tired

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.166, Penguin

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• I have decided not to die.

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  Dies, Decided

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.400, Penguin

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• It can be really powerful to write something when youre sad.

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  Powerful, Writing, Really Powerful

  "Kathryn Stockett: 'I still think I'm going to get into trouble for tackling the issue of race in America'". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. October 8, 2011.

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• Miss Leefolt sigh, hang up the phone like she just don't know how her brain gone operate without Miss Hilly coming over to push the Think buttons.

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  Thinking, Phones, Missing

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.204, Penguin

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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.

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  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Children

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• I have never been more proud of the United States than I am this year. We have elected an African-American president. We have the stellar Michelle Obama setting the standard for American women. I simply cannot say it enough: look how far we've come.

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  Years, African American, President

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• I do wish that people talked about the subject of race, especially in the South.

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  Race, People, Wish

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• I hear Raleigh's new accounting business isn't doing well. Maybe up in New York or somewhere it's a good thing, but in Jackson, Mississippi, people just don't care to do business with a rude, condescending asshole.

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  New York, People, Rude

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.87, Penguin

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