Mother Quotes by Jesmyn Ward

12 Mother quotes by Jesmyn Ward

Jesmyn Ward writes with raw honesty, and her reflections on motherhood are no different. Across 12 lines you’ll encounter a blend of strength, vulnerability, and the deep love that fuels a mother’s perseverance.

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My mother helped to integrate the local elementary school in the nineteen-sixties.

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One of the most important things that I want for my kids is I want them to live. You know, I want…

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My mother worked for a white family that lived in one of the mansions on the beach. The husband in the family…

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“The dream of her was the glow of a spent fire on a cold night: warm and welcoming.”

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I think that I'm trying to hopefully change my children's ideas about what is possible, and about what is possible for them.

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I would encounter W. E. B. Du Bois and the term double consciousness. When I read it, I thought about sitting in…

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At one time, when I was eight years old, my mother and father, my brother and my sisters - we had to…

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My mom is the kind of mom, when we would go to a friend of the family's house, and they would offer…

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When I was a teenager, I was the only black girl at a small, private Episcopal school, where my tuition was paid…

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I'm writing about the things I see all around me. Growing up in Mississippi, I've seen how these backward ideas about class…

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“China. She will return, standing tall and straight, the milk burned out of her. She will look down on the circle of…

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She was the murderous mother who cut us to the bone but left us alive, left us naked and bewildered as wrinkled…

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“Before all the little mean things she told me gathered and gathered and lodged like grit in a skinned knee.”

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People give the South a bad rap. It's often stereotyped as backwards and close-minded and dogmatic, and all of those things have been true.…

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When I was writing my first novel, 'Where the Line Bleeds,' which had young black men as its main characters, I was very invested…

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