It weren’t too loo long before I seen something in me, had changed. A bitter seed was planted inside of me. And I just didn’t feel so, accepting, anymore.
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.
Wasn't that the point of the book? For women to realize, We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought.
I shake my head at my friend. “Not only is they lines, but you know good as I do where them lines be drawn.” Aibileen shakes her head. “I used to believe in em. I don’t anymore. They in our heads. People like Miss Hilly is always trying to ma...
it always sound scarier when a hollerer talk soft.
That's what I love about Aibileen, she can take the most complicated things in life and wrap them up so small and simple, they'll fit right in your pocket.
I was surprise to see the world didn't stop just cause my boy did.
He needs "space" and "time," as if this were physics and not a human relationship.
Stuart needs "space" and "time," as if this were physics and not a human relationship.
...and that's when I get to wondering, what would happen if I told her she something good, ever day?
We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought.
You is kind. You is smart. You is important.
All I'm saying is, kindness don't have no boundaries.
Kindness don't have no boundaries.
I haven’t had the chance to look at too many men’s faces up close. And I noticed how his skin was thicker than mine, and a gorgeous shade of toast. The stiff blond hairs on his cheeks and chin seemed to be growing before my eyes. He smelled like ...
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...
No one tells us, girls who don't go on dates, that remembering can be almost as good as what actually happens.
Cause that's the way prayer do. It's like electricity, it keeps things going.
