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Jesmyn Ward Quotes

In my family and in my community, I see people struggling with drug addiction, with poverty and the effects of generational poverty; I see people struggling with lack of access to healthcare.

Jesmyn Ward

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american

Topics

Family Community People Healthcare

I work every morning, all morning, sometimes in the afternoons. Then sometimes I hunt in the afternoons - quail, doves, grouse up north - but just to stay alive, because writers die from their lifestyle but also from their lack of movement.

Jim Harrison

Work Morning Die Alive Sometimes Up

Like children, adolescents need a framework. Otherwise they can't cope. When someone has unlimited freedom, it means there's nobody who cares what they're doing.

Joan Lingard

Freedom Children Someone Doing Need

Those who take their money abroad in an effort to avoid paying American taxes should lose their American citizenship.

Robert Reich

Money Effort American Lose Taxes

The Home Guards are required to come in at once and deliver up their arms, those who fail to do so will be regarded as enemies of the Government and treated accordingly.

John Hunt Morgan

Home Government Will Enemies Fail

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.

Robert Kennedy

Evil Believe Poverty Long I Believe

Everywhere I go people come up to me, they mob me - anyone who has MS or has a relative with MS - they come up and hug and cry.

Ann Romney

People Me Hug Go Cry Up

I'm constantly fighting the angry black woman stigma, the 'You're pretty, you can't be funny' stigma.

Amanda Seales

Funny Woman Angry Black Fighting

We want to get to the point that using Uber is cheaper than owning a car.

Travis Kalanick

Car Want Point Get Uber Cheaper

I think what makes the Byrds stand up all these years is the basis in folk music. Folk music, being a timeless art form, is the foundation of the Byrds. We were all from a folk background. We considered ourselves folk singers even when we strapped on electric instruments and dabbled in different things.

Roger McGuinn

Music Art Stand Up Foundation Think

If I have to answer one more time, 'Why did you want to remake 'Straw Dogs?'' with the emphasis on the word 'why,' I'm going to flip out.

Rod Lurie

Time You Want Why More Dogs

Just ten of the Jewish billionaires on this Earth have more than enough to transform the occupied territories into heaven. We can put the 'pal' back in Palestinian.

Roseanne Barr

Enough Back Heaven Earth Jewish Ten

When I first got into the major label system, they were like, 'Hey, you're great - now write with a million people so we can get songs.' That was something I hadn't done before, and the songwriters I was working with had worked on some massive numbers - like 'True Colours.' One of the guys wrote 'Livin On A Prayer.'

Great Prayer People You Numbers Now