Quote by Jesmyn Ward Download Open image ““And I get up because it is the only thing I can do.”” — Jesmyn Ward ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“The only thing I know is that I jump when I'm told to and I have no free time.” — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
“You do what you can, when you can, and only after you’ve had enough sleep.” — Bethenny Frankel Copy Share Image
“Because between doing something and doing nothing, this is all I can do.” — Félix J. Palma Copy Share Image
“I don't know. It's like getting up in the morning. I don't want to get up but I don't want to stay in bed… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“No one has anything to get up for. Life's pointless and everyone just gets up anyway. That's how the human race works," she says,… — Cath Crowley Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I think that voodoo as a spiritual tradition has been demonized for so long in popular culture. I wanted to write against that and… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
There's so much I love about home, but then there's a lot that I can acknowledge that I dislike about home. And acknowledging that… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“The dream of her was the glow of a spent fire on a cold night: warm and welcoming.” — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
The first writer that I think of immediately that I studied with at Michigan is Peter Ho Davies. He was really important to me,… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I feel like so much of what happened in the Delta over the decades since slavery was abolished seems much closer in the Delta,… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“Vines catch my arms, my head; we tear through until we break out into the clearing before the fence, the field, the barn, the… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“Before all the little mean things she told me gathered and gathered and lodged like grit in a skinned knee.” — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
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.… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
By the time I wrote my memoir, 'Men We Reaped,' I had been running from writing it for a long time. When the events… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, I was the only black girl at a small, private Episcopal school, where my tuition was paid by the… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
She was the murderous mother who cut us to the bone but left us alive, left us naked and bewildered as wrinkled newborn babies,… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
