When you have a family, even though you might move a lot, you collect all of these things. It's the detritus of your family and they become the symbols of your family life, and your unit out in the world. In that moment I wanted to allude to the fact that the way my parents' relationship was falling apart was impacting me and my brother, my parents, but also our symbols.
I feel like if you aren't honest and if you don't let go and ease up off of the narrator, then the story doesn't take up a life of its own, and the c… - Jesmyn Ward
I feel like if you aren't honest and if you don't let go and ease up off of the narrator, then the story doesn't take up a life of its own, and the c…
- 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 … - 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 …
I feel like so much of what happened in the Delta over the decades since slavery was abolished seems much closer in the Delta, and maybe that's becau… - Jesmyn Ward
I feel like so much of what happened in the Delta over the decades since slavery was abolished seems much closer in the Delta, and maybe that's becau…
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 th… - Jesmyn Ward
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 th…
When I was writing the memoir, every page was a battle with myself because I knew I had to tell the truth. That's what the memoir form demands. I als… - Jesmyn Ward
When I was writing the memoir, every page was a battle with myself because I knew I had to tell the truth. That's what the memoir form demands. I als…
I wanted to be my own heroine. - Jesmyn Ward
I wanted to be my own heroine.
By the numbers, by all the official records, here at the confluence of history, of racism, of poverty, and economic power, this is what our lives are… - Jesmyn Ward
By the numbers, by all the official records, here at the confluence of history, of racism, of poverty, and economic power, this is what our lives are…
When I decided to write about my brother and friends, I was attempting to answer the question why. Why did they all die like that? Why so many of the… - Jesmyn Ward
When I decided to write about my brother and friends, I was attempting to answer the question why. Why did they all die like that? Why so many of the…
I think that we need to be more aware of how we are all interconnected, and how we actually need to invest in safety nets and in education, and that … - Jesmyn Ward
I think that we need to be more aware of how we are all interconnected, and how we actually need to invest in safety nets and in education, and that …
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