"She was the murderous mother who cut us……" — Jesmyn Ward
"She was the murderous mother who cut us to the bone but left us alive, left us naked and bewildered as wrinkled newborn babies, as blind puppies, as sun-starved newly hatched baby snakes. She left us a dark Gulf and salt-burned land. She left us to learn to crawl. She left us to salvage. Katrina is the mother we will remember until the next mother with large, merciless hands, committed to blood, comes."
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16 Quotes by Jesmyn Ward
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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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I read the last Harry Potter, and I cried for at least the last 70 pages. Awful! I was curled…
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I feel like the kind of people I write about are the kind of people I grew up with, the…
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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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