Quote by Jesmyn Ward Download Open image ““But I am not that eloquent, so I shut my mouth and smile.”” — Jesmyn Ward ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“That smile, right there?” “Yeah?” “I’ve known you my entire life. You only smile like that for me.” — Amy Lane Copy Share Image
“When you smile and no one else is around, you definitely mean it.” — Raymond D. Longoria Jr Copy Share Image
“-Nobody can force you to smile, she says. -What? I ask. But I know she's not even talking to me, only to herself, as… — Hugo Hamilton Copy Share Image
“David, dear. But you look the best when you wear your smile. There is no beauty like the one that comes from inside you.” — Olivia Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
“If you couldn't say something honest and useful, then you kept your mouth shut.” — Kit Rocha Copy Share Image
“Just keep your mouth shut and smile. That’s always good advice.’ Jezal” — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“I hate when you have to smile for me.. so nice if you'd do that spontaneously.” — Toba Beta 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
