We Reaped Quotes
- Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
- Jesmyn Ward is an alchemist. She transmutes pain and loss into gold. Men We Reaped illustrates hardships but thankfully, vitally, it's just as clear about… — Victor LaValle
- Jesmyn Ward left her Gulf Coast home for education and experience, but it called her back. It called on her in most painful ways, to… — Natasha Trethewey
- Jesmyn Ward returns to the world of her first two books, but here in the mode of non-fiction. A clear-eyed witness to the harrowing stories… — Nicholas Delbanco
- Men We Reaped is a fiercely felt meditation on the value of life that at once reminds us of its infinite worth and indicts us… — Peter Ho Davies
- We saw the lightning and that was the guns and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard… — Harriet Tubman