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Jesmyn Ward quotes: Because we trusted nothing, we endeavored to protect ourselves, boys becoming misogynistic and violent, girls turning duplicitous, all of us hopeless.

Because we trusted nothing, we endeavored to protect ourselves, boys becoming misogynistic and violent, girls turning duplicitous, all of us hopeless.

Jesmyn Ward quotes: Did every step feel like the running leap a bird takes before flight?

Did every step feel like the running leap a bird takes before flight?

Jesmyn Ward quotes: Hip-hop, which is my generation's blues, is important to the characters that I write about. They use hip-hop to understand the world through language.

Hip-hop, which is my generation's blues, is important to the characters that I write about. They use hip-hop to understand the world through language.

Jesmyn Ward quotes: There is laughter, shrill calls. Everyone is flirting, saying in nudges and jokes and blushing what they would do in private.

There is laughter, shrill calls. Everyone is flirting, saying in nudges and jokes and blushing what they would do in private.

Jesmyn Ward quotes: In every one of the Greeks' mythology tales, there is this: a man chasing a woman, or a woman chasing a man. There is never a meeting in the middle.

In every one of the Greeks' mythology tales, there is this: a man chasing a woman, or a woman chasing a man. There is never a meeting in the middle.

Jesmyn Ward quotes: When I look back on my reading habits when I was really young, I was really drawn to stories about strong girls who in some ways are outsiders.

When I look back on my reading habits when I was really young, I was really drawn to stories about strong girls who in some ways are outsiders.

Jesmyn Ward quotes: I will not let him see until none of us have any choices about what can be seen, what can be avoided, what is blind, and what will turn us

I will not let him see until none of us have any choices about what can be seen, what can be avoided, what is blind, and what will turn us to stone.

Jesmyn Ward quotes: That's why I write fiction, because I want to write these stories that people will read and find universal.

That's why I write fiction, because I want to write these stories that people will read and find universal.

Jesmyn Ward quotes: 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.

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.

Jesmyn Ward quotes: Love don't just go away like that, Cille," Sandman said."It do.

Love don't just go away like that, Cille," Sandman said.
"It do.

Jesmyn Ward quotes: I wanted to be my own heroine.

I wanted to be my own heroine.

Jesmyn Ward quotes: Replace ropes with bullets. Hound dogs with German shepherds. A gray uniform with a bulletproof vest. Nothing is new.

Replace ropes with bullets. Hound dogs with German shepherds. A gray uniform with a bulletproof vest. Nothing is new.

Jesmyn Ward quotes: I wanted to write about the experiences of the poor and the black and the rural people of the South.

I wanted to write about the experiences of the poor and the black and the rural people of the South.

Jesmyn Ward quotes: Would a human egg let itself be seen?

Would a human egg let itself be seen?

Jesmyn Ward quotes: But I am not that eloquent, so I shut my mouth and smile.

But I am not that eloquent, so I shut my mouth and smile.

Jesmyn Ward quotes: And I get up because it is the only thing I can do.

And I get up because it is the only thing I can do.

Jesmyn Ward quotes: I burn, and I hope.

I burn, and I hope.

Jesmyn Ward quotes: When people ask me about my hometown, I tell them it was called after a wolf before it was partially tamed and settled.

When people ask me about my hometown, I tell them it was called after a wolf before it was partially tamed and settled.

Jesmyn Ward quotes: To give life...is to know what's worth fighting for. And what's love.

To give life...is to know what's worth fighting for. And what's love.