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Jesmyn Ward has 16 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Grief doesn't fade. Grief scabs over like my scars and pulls into new, painful configurations as it knits. It hurts in new…
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Life is a hurricane, and we board up to save what we can and bow low to the earth to crouch in…
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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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There is laughter, shrill calls. Everyone is flirting, saying in nudges and jokes and blushing what they would do in private
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I wanted to be my own heroine.
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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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I read the last Harry Potter, and I cried for at least the last 70 pages. Awful! I was curled into a…
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I feel like the kind of people I write about are the kind of people I grew up with, the families that…
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That's why I write fiction, because I want to write these stories that people will read and find universal.
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While I've said that there are plenty of things I dislike about the South, I can be clear that there are things…
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I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative…
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I wrote the first draft of my first novel at Michigan, and then I wrote the first draft of 'Salvage the Bones'…
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He who can traverse the pit of darkness will emerge a stronger, more compassionate person.
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