Jesmyn Ward Quotes
I can't stop thinking about the devaluation of black life, and I find it seeping into everything I write.
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It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities.
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I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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As feminism becomes more integrated into mainstream publications and conversation, I feel weary of an obsession of celebrity culture masquerading as activism or as conversation or action. It's clickbait.
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
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Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
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I always thought those World War II films with German people speaking English with German accents was weird.
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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
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It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.
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I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.
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I once interviewed my grandma for a class project about the Second World War. After 70 years filled with marriage, children, grandchildren, death, poverty and triumph, the thing about which she was unquestionably the proudest and most excited was that she and her family did their part during the war.
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If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
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An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
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I'm a hoot and a half, I like to think.
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I played piano and was always in the choir. I tried to play flute because all the pretty girls played flute.
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I hate heights, that's the most terrifying thing for me.
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My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing, and I can only do one thing at a time.
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I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
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We can't shame women for trying to be beautiful. That's so mean and unfair. But there's a part of me that thinks it's really sad, too. It's very complicated.
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Right now the way I define beauty is individuality and wisdom, which I think creates a certain inner confidence. And not confidence in a way that's only on the surface, but a deep-down knowing of yourself or settling into who you are.
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I can't stop thinking about the devaluation of black life, and I find it seeping into everything I write.
