Grief doesn't fade. Grief scabs over like my scars and pulls into new, painful configurations as it knits. It hurts in new ways. We are never free from grief.
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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