I want to yell so loud that Baby Girl can hear me that dirty ain't a c…

Kathryn Stockett
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I want to yell so loud that Baby Girl can hear me that dirty ain't a color, disease ain't the Negro side a town. I want to stop that moment from coming - and it come in ever white child's life - when they start to think that colored folks ain't as good as whites. ... I pray that wasn't her moment, Pray I still got time. ✨ Kathryn Stockett (2009). The Help, p.106, Penguin
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