Aibileen Clark

You is kind. You is smart. You is important.

I know something about you. Don't you forget that. From what Yule Mae says, there's a lot of time to write letters in jail. Plenty of time to write the truth about you. And the paper is free.

I don't know. I been told I'm a pretty good writer, already sold a lot of books!

18 people were killed in Jackson that night. 10 white and 8 black. I don't think God has color in mind when he sets a tornado loose.

In just ten minutes, the only life I knew was done.

God says we need to love our enemies. It hard to do. But it can start by telling the truth. No one had ever asked me what it feel like to be me. Once I told the truth about that, I felt free. And I got to thinking about all the people I know. And the things I seen and done. My boy Trelaw always said we gonna have a writer in the family one day. I guess it's gonna be me.

I ain't never had no white person in my house before.

Miss Leefolt got so much hairspray on her head, she gonna blow us allup if she light a cigarette.