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Racism Quotes by Jesmyn Ward

14 Racism quotes by Jesmyn Ward

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Jesmyn Ward’s voice cuts straight to the core of racial injustice, delivering raw honesty in just fourteen lines. This brief set captures the urgency of her observations, making it a solid entry point for anyone wanting to feel the weight of her insight without wading through a larger archive.

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I'm not saying I have to write a book that's ten times better than my counterparts, but I do think that I…

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As a parent, you want to protect your children, but the fact of racism in this country, of inequality, that is still…

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There is power in naming racism for what it is, in shining a bright light on it, brighter than any torch or…

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I do think that people will claim a certain fatigue about talking about race. But I think that even though they do,…

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In the South, there is more overt racism. It's more willfully ignorant and brazen. But it's not as if by moving I'm…

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One of the things that is so striking to me about the South, especially living here now as an adult, is that…

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There are moments from childhood that attract heat in our memories, some for their sublime brilliance, some for their malignancy. The first…

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By the numbers, by all the official records, here at the confluence of history, of racism, of poverty, and economic power, this…

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“First, it confirmed how inextricably interwoven the past is in the present, how heavily that past bears on the future; we cannot…

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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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Black people in the US are told all the time, from all aspects, that they're nothing, that they're less than. And of…

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“It is as if we have reentered the past and are living in a second Nadir: It seems the rate of police…

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There are things about the South - the politics, the classism, the racism - that I hate, and I want to be…

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“But race in the United States is not a tidy matter. Only three of the submitted pieces explicitly referenced the future. Most…

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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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The first writer that I think of immediately that I studied with at Michigan is Peter Ho Davies. He was really important to me,…

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I feel like so much of what happened in the Delta over the decades since slavery was abolished seems much closer in the Delta,…

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“Vines catch my arms, my head; we tear through until we break out into the clearing before the fence, the field, the barn, the…

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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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By the time I wrote my memoir, 'Men We Reaped,' I had been running from writing it for a long time. When the events…

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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 by the…

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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 newborn babies,…

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I hope people who read my books feel empathy for us and really see us as complicated people.

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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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“Lot of folks was in there for stealing food because everybody was poor and starving, and even though White people couldn’t get your work…

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