Being Quote by Edward P. Jones

My mother worked in the white world, but I lived almost exclusively in a black world. I don't think I had ever seen a…

— Edward P. Jones

Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something.

— Edward P. Jones

In the summer of 1964, my sister and I went to South Ballston, Virginia, to stay with my aunt and her kids. They passed…

— Edward P. Jones

“You too heavy a man for me to carry...I done carried heavy men and I know how they can break your back. I ain’t…

— Edward P. Jones

“Without all that young stuff, Stamford, you will die a slave. And it will not be a pretty die.”

— Edward P. Jones

We are all worthy of one another.

— Edward P. Jones

“She went through her memory for the time, for the day, she and and her husband told him all about what he should and…

— Edward P. Jones

“A man does not learn very well, Mr. Robbins. Women, yes, because they are used to bending with whatever wind comes along. A woman,…

— Edward P. Jones

From my apartment in Arlington, I could see Washington. It was always nice to be near home.

— Edward P. Jones

Until I can read a story physically, with the eyes, it doesn't seem to exist for me.

— Edward P. Jones

“God is in his heaven and he don't care most of the time. The trick of life is to know when God does care…

— Edward P. Jones

I'm fascinated by the awful, awful things that human beings do to each other.

— Edward P. Jones