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.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • Great
  • Man
  • Blessings

• 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.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Me
  • Hurt
  • Feel

• To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Life
  • Way
  • Life Goes On

• 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.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • School
  • College
  • New York

• 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.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Painting
  • New York
  • Paris

• 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.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Culture
  • Action
  • Celebrity

• Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.

  

  Vincent Canby
  • World
  • Curiosity
  • Without

• Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.

  

  Zelda Fitzgerald
  • Friends
  • Need
  • Youth

• I always thought those World War II films with German people speaking English with German accents was weird.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • People
  • World
  • War

• 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.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Political
  • Reality
  • Color

• 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.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • People
  • Military
  • Relate

• 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.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • People
  • Friends
  • Mother

• 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.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • World
  • Children
  • Family

• If people think I look good, it's the make-up.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Great
  • Taken
  • Some

• I'm a hoot and a half, I like to think.

  

  Xosha Roquemore
  • Think
  • Like
  • Half

• I played piano and was always in the choir. I tried to play flute because all the pretty girls played flute.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Pretty
  • Play
  • Always

• Che tosto o buona o ria che la fama esceFuor d'una bocca, in infinito cresce.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• Well, first of all, we've got to get away from being offended by the truth. We've seen a 41 percent increase in food stamp recipients across the United States of America since President Obama was sworn in in January 2009. That has nothing to do with black, white, Hispanic or whatever. It's a fact, and we need to, you know, deal with that.

  

  Allen West
  • Truth
  • America
  • Black

• I'm just going to be me.

  

  Normani Kordei Hamilton Fifth Harmony
  • Going To Be
  • Be Me

• When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • World
  • God
  • Bad

• Art matters not merely because it is the most magnificent ornament and the most nearly unfailing occupation of our lives, but because it is life itself.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Life
  • Art

• I can't stop thinking about the devaluation of black life, and I find it seeping into everything I write.

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Black