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Jesmyn Ward Quotes

I was raised in Mississippi, in a family and a community that identified as black, and I have the stories and the experiences to go with it. One of my great-great grandfathers was killed by a gang of white Prohibition patrollers.

Jesmyn Ward

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american

Topics

Family Community Black White Go

The education of my brother and myself was of paramount importance to my parents, and in addition to their strong encouragement, they were prepared to make any sacrifice to further our intellectual development.

Jerome Isaac Friedman

Education Myself Sacrifice Brother

There is no fear when you choose love. The more you choose love, the more love is in your life. It gets easier and easier.

Melissa Etheridge

Life Love Fear Love Is You Choose

It's true that my research expertise is in biology: for example, the Ebola virus, the Marburg virus, and monkey pox, and not bacteriology as in the case of the anthrax organism. It's also true that I have never, ever worked with anthrax in my life. It's a separate field from the research I was performing at Fort Detrick.

Steven Hatfill

Life Research My Life Biology True

I found myself fascinated by neuroscience, attended a monthly lecture on brain science at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, and was invited to become a member of a discussion group devoted to a new field: neuropsychoanalysis.

Siri Hustvedt

Science Myself New York Brain New

Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

Tom Landry

Plan You Goal Go Achieving Will

Journalists who are devoted to strictly factual reporting take particular pleasure from satirical news outlets that have the liberty to laugh and even mock the hypocrisy that reporters and editors must simply observe without comment.

Tom Rachman

Laugh Hypocrisy Liberty News Without

Anyone with sincere religious beliefs cannot say that all religions are true. That is so illogical it is pathetic. All religion cannot be true because some of them are so diametrically opposed to each other.

Josh McDowell

Religion Be True Say True Religions

I like cream cheese in just about anything.

Diane Mott Davidson

Cheese Anything Just Like Cream

We don't know what we're doing. We don't have a plan. We don't sit down and calculate it.

Dean Ween

Doing Plan Down Know Sit Calculate

The thrill of hearing your own voice recorded is still there, I still love it, going into the studio and thinking how can I sing this song and between the producers and the musicians you find a way of doing it.

Cliff Richard

Love Song Voice Thinking Musicians

If someone like my father chooses to criticise Israeli policies, it's not because he is a self-hating Jew, but because he is not prepared to live in a state of self-denial.

Clive Sinclair

Father Live Someone Because Prepared

I think celebrities have an obligation to the public to not just sing or act.

Clay Aiken

Think Act Obligation Sing Just