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“Mississippi is like my mother. I am allowed to complain about her all I want, but God help the person who raises an ill word about her around me, unless she is their mother too.”
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“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.”
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― The Help
“I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they must be good.”
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“it always sound scarier when a hollerer talk soft.”
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