she clear her throat again and I'm wondering why she telling me all this. I'm the maid, she ain't gone win no friends talking to me.
Kathryn StockettHe moves closer and leans down so I will look at him. And I feel sick, literally nauseated by the smell of bourbon on his breath. And yet I still want to fold myself up and put my entire body in his arms. I am loving him and hating him at the same time.
Kathryn StockettIt's alive and well everywhere. Native Americans get a lot of crap in the West and south west. Muslims get treated like crap in just about every country in the Western world lately. Black people are mistreated in some parts of the US still. There are black people who are racist against white people. I've recently encountered someone who decided they couldn't tolerate my presence because I'm catholic, which according them makes me a pedophile, Satan worshipper and a whore.
I've even encountered discrimination from people over seas for being American. Especially with my cousin's friends from England. They were rude to me the entire visit. They thought that I had to be an ignorant, xenophobic, racist slob just because I was from America and they spent most of the time trying to pick a fight with me to prove it.
Racism exists, but don't take the comments you read online seriously. A good 80-90% of those are trolls looking for attention or a bored teenager who thinks it's funny to be an idiot.
—Si alguna mujé blanca lee algún día mi historia, sólo quiero que recuerde esto: que dar las grasias de corazón cuando piensas en to lo que alguien ha hecho por ti —mueve la cabeza y mira la mesa llena de arañazos—, es algo mu bonito.
Kathryn StockettTag: the-help criadas-y-señoras
...and it's a strange thing happening here cause nobody saying nothing and we still managing to have us a conversation.
Kathryn StockettWe must keep this a perfect secret.
Kathryn StockettI'm tired of the rules," I say.
Kathryn StockettAnd I know there are plenty of other "colored" things I could do besides telling my stories or going to Shirley Boon's meetings- the mass meetings in town, the marches in Birmingham, the voting rallies upstate. But truth is, I don't care that much about voting. I don't care about eating at a counter with white people. What I care about is, if in ten years, a white lady will call my girls dirty and accuse them of stealing the silver.
Kathryn StockettI can't wear a man's jacket with a ball gown." She rolls her eyes at him, sighs. But thanks, honey.
Kathryn StockettShe blow em clean over. She suck the grits off the candle and start eating. After while, she smile up at me, say, "How old are you?"
"Aibileen's fifty-three."
Her eyes get real wide. I might as well be a thousand.
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