Jesmyn Ward Quotes

At every turn, Molly Antopol's gorgeous debut story collection, 'The UnAmericans,' is firing on multiple cylinders.

Jesmyn Ward

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I like being scared, so I've always liked fairy tales because they're kind of creepy.

Lana Parrilla
- Kind
- Always
- Scared
Before I left Russia in 1999, I was living in a very poor factory town with my family and friends, and nothing was ever going to change.

Natalia Vodianova
- Family
- Friends
- Change
Only people have been through that miserable time will recall the pass from their deep memory.

Zhang Yimou
- People
- Time
- Deep
Before the Civil War, the Negro was certainly as efficient a workman as the raw immigrant from Ireland or Germany. But, whereas the Irishmen found economic opportunity wide and daily growing wider, the Negro found public opinion determined to 'keep him in his place.'

W. E. B. Du Bois
- War
- Opportunity
- Growing
I didn't want to fall into the trap of complacency.

Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
- Want
- Fall
- Complacency
I'd always loved strings. When I was in high school and saw strings playing on stage, an orchestra or a symphony, all those bows moving at the same time... wow.

Isaac Hayes
- Time
- School
- High