Author: Jesmyn Ward

Quotes

I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative language, which goes against the trend in fiction.

I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative language, which goes against the trend in fiction.

- Jesmyn Ward

At one time, when I was eight years old, my mother and father, my brother and my sisters - we had to move back in with my grandmother, and there were 13 of us living in one house.

At one time, when I was eight years old, my mother and father, my brother and my sisters - we had to move back in with my grandmother, and there were 13 of us living in one house.

- Jesmyn Ward

History and socio-economic inequality and all those things had, like, borne down upon my family and my community and really sort of narrowed our choices.

History and socio-economic inequality and all those things had, like, borne down upon my family and my community and really sort of narrowed our choices.

- Jesmyn Ward

I think that often in the United States we're very blind to the ways that history lives in the present.

I think that often in the United States we're very blind to the ways that history lives in the present.

- Jesmyn Ward

I celebrate my blackness. I love the artistic vibrancy of the culture I was born to.

I celebrate my blackness. I love the artistic vibrancy of the culture I was born to.

- Jesmyn Ward

A lot of times, real life is more surreal than writing.

A lot of times, real life is more surreal than writing.

- Jesmyn Ward

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