“Everyone knows how we white people feel, the glorified Mammy figure who dedicates her whole life to a white family. Margaret Mitchell covered that. But no one ever asked Mammy how she felt about it.”
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― The Help
“All my life I'd been told what to believe about politics, coloreds, being a girl. But with Constantine's thumb pressed in my hand, I realized I actually had a choice in what I could believe.”
― The Help
― The Help
“I listened wide-eyed, stupid. Glowing by her voice in the dim light. If chocolate was a sound, it would've been Constantine's voice singing. If singing was a color, it would've been the color of that chocolate.”
― The Help
― The Help
“I always thought insanity would be a dark, bitter feeling, but it is drenching and delicious if you really roll around in it.”
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― The Help
“All I'm saying is, kindness don't have no boundaries.”
― The Help
― The Help
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