"I feel like the kind of people I……" — Jesmyn Ward
"I feel like the kind of people I write about are the kind of people I grew up with, the families that I know in my community. Most everyone is working-class, and there are some intact families, but a lot of families aren't."
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16 Quotes by Jesmyn Ward
Jesmyn Ward has 16 quotes on this site.
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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…
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Life is a hurricane, and we board up to save what we can and bow low to the earth to…
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By the numbers, by all the official records, here at the confluence of history, of racism, of poverty, and economic…
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There is laughter, shrill calls. Everyone is flirting, saying in nudges and jokes and blushing what they would do in…
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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…
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I read the last Harry Potter, and I cried for at least the last 70 pages. Awful! I was curled…
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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…
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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…
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I wrote the first draft of my first novel at Michigan, and then I wrote the first draft of 'Salvage…
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My mom worked as a housekeeper, and I saw her relationship with her employers - how on the one hand…
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The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the…
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Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out…
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I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know.
— Andrea Arnold
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No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person,…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily…
— Saint Augustine
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There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class…
— Alfred Austin
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I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm…
— Diane Ackerman
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I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose…
— Peter Ackroyd
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Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed…
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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