Once upon a time they was two girls, " I say. "one girl had black skin, one girl had white." Mae Mobley look up at me. She listening." Little colored girl say to little white girl, 'How come your skin be so pale?' White girl say, 'I don't know. How come your skin be so black? What you think that mean?'" But neither one a them little girls knew. So little white girl say, 'Well, let's see. You got hair, I got hair.'" I gives Mae Mobley a little tousle on her head." Little colored girl say 'I got a nose, you got a nose.'" I gives her little snout a tweak. She got to reach up and do the same to me." Little white girl say, 'I got toes, you got toes.' And I do the little thing with her toes, but she can't get to mine cause I got my white work shoes on."' So we's the same. Just a different color', say that little colored girl. The little white girl she agreed and they was friends. The End."Baby Girl just look at me. Law, that was a sorry story if I ever heard one. Wasn't even no plot to it. But Mae Mobley, she smile and say, "Tell it again. .Kathryn Stockett
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When I was a teenager, my sister and I used to go to the library and look through the books that had been checked out. One day we came across a book that had been returned to the library by a little girl who had turned in a story about two little girls, one of whom was white and one of whom was black. The little girl in the story said that she had a friend who was white and the other girl said she had a friend who was black. The little girl in the story said, "What's the difference between us?" The other girl said, "Well, you're white." The first girl said, "I don't know what that means." The second girl said, "That means you're not as dark as me." The first girl said, "I don't know what that means either." "It's black," said the second girl. "And you see? We're both black."
Source: The Help
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