"While I've said that there are plenty of……" — Jesmyn Ward
"While I've said that there are plenty of things I dislike about the South, I can be clear that there are things I love about the South."
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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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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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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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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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