The Help

590 00:44:15,695 --> 00:44:18,156 I don't say my prayers out loud. 591 00:44:18,322 --> 00:44:21,492 I can get my point across a lot better writing them down. 592 00:44:21,659 --> 00:44:26,706 I write an hour, sometimes two, every night. 593 00:44:26,873 --> 00:44:31,169 And after my prayers last night, I got some stories down, too. 594 00:44:34,839 --> 00:44:36,132 Go ahead. 595 00:44:45,766 --> 00:44:48,853 "My first white baby to ever look after 596 00:44:49,020 --> 00:44:52,231 was named Alton Carrington Speers. 597 00:44:52,398 --> 00:44:56,444 It was 1925, and I had just turned 14. 598 00:44:57,111 --> 00:45:00,156 I dropped out of school to help Mama with the bills. 599 00:45:00,323 --> 00:45:02,909 Alton's mama died of lung disease." 600 00:45:06,537 --> 00:45:10,458 I loved that baby. And he loved me. 601 00:45:12,919 --> 00:45:15,713 That's when I learned I could make children feel proud of they self. 602 00:45:18,716 --> 00:45:22,178 Alton used to always be asking me how come I was black. 603 00:45:22,345 --> 00:45:24,388 Just ate him up. 604 00:45:24,555 --> 00:45:27,391 And one time, I told him it was because I drank too much coffee. 605 00:45:32,688 --> 00:45:35,316 You should have seen his face. 606 00:45:47,703 --> 00:45:50,289 This was just so great. 607 00:45:52,291 --> 00:45:55,586 I can't tell you how much I appreciate your doing this with me. 608 00:45:56,837 --> 00:45:58,547 What changed your mind? 609 00:46:00,258 --> 00:46:01,384 God. 610 00:46:03,552 --> 00:46:05,513 And Miss Hilly Holbrook. 611 00:46:18,734 --> 00:46:23,406 Miss Hilly, I would like to ask you and Mr William something. 612 00:46:26,867 --> 00:46:30,913 My twin boys graduated from high school, both on the honour roll. 613 00:46:31,580 --> 00:46:35,042 Me and my husband, we been saving for years to send them to Tougaloo. 614 00:46:37,044 --> 00:46:40,172 We're short about $75 on one of the tuitions. 615 00:46:43,009 --> 00:46:47,179 I am late. I gotta get going. 616 00:46:50,141 --> 00:46:51,350 See you tonight, honey. 617 00:46:51,517 --> 00:46:52,560 OK. 618 00:46:54,979 --> 00:46:56,105 Go on. 619 00:46:59,608 --> 00:47:02,486 Well, now we're... 620 00:47:02,653 --> 00:47:05,364 ...faced with having to choose 621 00:47:05,531 --> 00:47:08,159 which son can go if we don't come up with the money. 622 00:47:09,368 --> 00:47:11,996 Would you consider giving us a loan? 623 00:47:12,747 --> 00:47:17,960 I'd work every day for free till it was paid off. 624 00:47:18,127 --> 00:47:22,131 That's not working for free. That's paying <i>off</i> a debt. 625 00:47:24,633 --> 00:47:26,135 Yes, ma'am. 626 00:47:30,056 --> 00:47:34,310 As a Christian, I'm doing you a favour. 627 00:47:36,062 --> 00:47:40,274 See, God don't give charity to those who are well and able. 628 00:47:41,442 --> 00:47:45,237 You need to come up with this money on your own. OK? 629 00:47:47,448 --> 00:47:49,492 Yes, ma'am. 630 00:47:49,658 --> 00:47:51,118 You'll thank me one day. 631 00:47:53,662 --> 00:47:56,999 You cooking white food, you taste it with a different spoon. 632 00:47:57,750 --> 00:47:59,877 If they see you put the tasting spoon back in the pot, 633 00:48:00,044 --> 00:48:01,379 might as well throw it all out. 634 00:48:01,545 --> 00:48:02,713 Spoon, too. 635 00:48:02,880 --> 00:48:06,092 And you use the same cup, same fork, same plate every day. 636 00:48:06,258 --> 00:48:07,843 And you put it up in the cabinet. 637 00:48:08,010 --> 00:48:10,721 You tell that white woman that's where you're gonna keep it from now on out. 638 00:48:10,888 --> 00:48:12,681 Don't do it and see what happens. 639 00:48:12,848 --> 00:48:14,517 Morning, ladies. 640 00:48:14,683 --> 00:48:16,352 When you're serving white folks coffee, 641 00:48:16,519 --> 00:48:17,812 set it down in front of them. 642 00:48:17,978 --> 00:48:20,648 Don't hand it to them, 'cause your hands can't touch. 643 00:48:21,440 --> 00:48:24,151 And don't hit on they children. 644 00:48:24,318 --> 00:48:26,862 White folks like to do they own spanking. 645 00:48:28,155 --> 00:48:30,658 And last thing. Come here. 646 00:48:31,951 --> 00:48:33,160 Look at me. 647 00:48:33,327 --> 00:48:35,663 No sass-mouthing. 648 00:48:37,790 --> 00:48:40,167 No sass-mouthing. 649 00:48:40,334 --> 00:48:42,044 I mean it. 650 00:48:47,258 --> 00:48:48,592 Give your mama a kiss. 651 00:48:51,262 --> 00:48:55,766 <i>Leroy had made Sugar quit school to help him with the bills.</i> 652 00:48:59,645 --> 00:49:03,065 <i>And every day Minny went without a job,</i> 653 00:49:03,232 --> 00:49:05,985 <i>might have been a day Leroy took her from our world.</i> 654 00:49:10,448 --> 00:49:12,199 Good morning, everybody. 655 00:49:19,081 --> 00:49:20,374 <i>But I knew.</i> 656 00:49:20,541 --> 00:49:24,837 <i>I knew the only white...