Jesmyn Ward Quotes

It infuriates me that the work of white American writers can be universal and lay claim to classic texts, while black and female authors are ghetto-ized as 'other.'

Jesmyn Ward

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The first job I ever had was at a pool-liner-manufacturing plant. Minimum wage was $4.25, and that's what I was making. It was this huge, hot, un-air-conditioned factory staffed with all women and me. This is in Georgia, during the summertime, so it was pretty ridiculous.

Jack McBrayer
- Women
- Job
- Pretty
The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.

Haile Selassie
- Time
- World
- True
I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.

Gabriel Byrne
- Friend
- Football
- Dying
There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.

Ralph Fiennes
- Very
- Days
- Humanitarian
It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.

Gao Xingjian
- Life
- Truth
- True
It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.

Natalie du Toit
- Life
- School
- Desk