Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

She done told every white woman in town I'm a thief.

It's what we dream of doing all weekend long.

There's a particularly tall and very handsome man named Stuart here for you.

Alton's mama died of lung disease.

Tell Raleigh every penny he spends on a coloured's bathroom

I gotta come up with your questions, too?

They done set a bomb off in Medgar Evers' carport.

Oh, Christ. I guess you'll do. Do you clean?

Dear Miss Myrna:

- My name is Eugenia Phelan, and... - Come on.

Grab that basket.

You damn right I don't!

I'll be here tomorrow morning about 9.15.

- Come on, Minny. - All right.

and shoot me dead right here on this no-wax floor.

It could have been you, Hilly.

the entire country to march with him in D.C. In August.

Oh, thank you, Henry.

This many Negroes and whites

We gots to get some more maids.

Maybe we ought to burn the chicken a little.

Do you ever dream of being something else?

Margaret Mitchell glorified the mammy figure,

Daddy ruined you.

I really need a maid.

That reminds me so much of my maid, Constantine.

If the wrong person caught you with anything like that,

You stop this...

I parked way up on State Street and caught a cab here, like you asked.

The birthing blues got hold of Miss Leefolt pretty hard.

- Miss Celia? - Hmm?

I'm hungry, Mommy.

Has gone shit house crazy on us

No sass-mouthing.

Me and my husband, we been saving for years to send them to Tougaloo.

See, courage isn't just about being brave.

And for God's sake, you're a 23-year-old educated woman.

I gave that to you myself.

Don't you dare say that.

It's mean and hurtful, like them boys.

I'm gonna put Billy down for his nap.

Me and Aibileen done asked everybody we know. Thirty-one maids.

You're already making up names. Just make up the maids, too.

You're not leaving the house in those awful Mexican man shoes.

No, ma'am. We ain't.

Good to see you, sir. You remember my wife?

I done raised 17 kids in my life.

Did you hear that? Do you have her phone number?

in spite of the weakness of our flesh.

I guarantee you, one day they're going to figure out cigarettes will kill you.

He always said we were gonna have a writer in the family one day.

Saturday night.

Now remember, no gentleman wants to spend the evening with a sourpuss.

has reviewed the Home Health Sanitation Initiative that I drafted,

We didn't ever think you'd leave Ole Miss.

her mother said she was swimming in proposals.

Aibileen, the girls are pulling up, and the table isn't set.

Well... I guess I can read what you come up with.

Shut that goddamn door

What changed your mind?

who dedicates her whole life