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

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

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

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

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

Spending time with America's soldiers is always inspiring. — John Boehner

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

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

The more detailed the plan, the easier the trip. — Henry Ford

The world does not understand theology or dogma, but it understands love and sympathy. — Dwight L. Moody

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

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

The teacher's role in discussion is to keep it going along fruitful lines - be moderating, guiding, correcting and arguing like one more students. — Mortimer Adler

I wanted to be my own heroine. — Jesmyn Ward

Would a human egg let itself be seen? — Jesmyn Ward

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

Only the weak are put on paths without peril. — Hermann Hesse

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

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

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

I burn, and I hope. — Jesmyn Ward

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

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