There is no trickier subject for a writer from the South than that of affection between a black person and a white one in the unequal world of segregation. For the dishonesty upon which a society is founded makes every emotion suspect, makes it impossible to know whether what flowed between two people was honest feeling or pity or pragmatism.(Howell Raines's Pulitzer Prize winning article Grady's Gift)-Sockett admired this quote and used it in her summary. β¨ Kathryn Stockett (2011). The Help, p.688, Penguin UK
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