Kathryn Stockett

I do wish that people talked about the subject of race, especially in the South.

I think if you're president, color goes away completely: you're president and it doesn't matter if you're white, green or purple.

It can be really powerful to write something when you're sad.

The first book you write because of the way it makes you feel. The second one you can't help but wonder how it's going to make the reader feel.

I sit in my little office and I feel like I've got all my readers staring at me.

That white uniform was her 'pass' to get into white places with us - the grocery store, the state fair, the movies. Even though this was the 70s and the segregation laws had changed, the 'rules' had not.