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Jesmyn Ward Quotes

My family has been poor and working-class for generations. And we live - I live in this really small community in Southern Mississippi where you don't evacuate, and you have never evacuated because there are too many people in your family to evacuate.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american

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Family Live Community People Small

People should hold elected officials accountable for how they vote. Period.

People Vote Hold Elected Officials

I felt like if I wasn't sharing myself physically, I would actually get a chance to see the downfalls of my partner. I would be able to minimize my intake of being disappointed.

Myself Chance Partner Sharing See

I've always been drawn to writing for young readers. The books that I read growing up remain in my mind very strongly.

Mind Growing Up Writing Young Always

I'm just writing a story that I want to read.

Writing Story Want Just Read

You can't sit there and worry about everything.

Michael Bloomberg

Worry You Everything Sit About

The idea that the rest of the world was somehow being held hostage by the Arab-Israeli conflict once had a minimal basis in reality. In the first 20 years of Israel's existence, every Arab country was in an active state of war with the Jewish state.

War Conflict World Rest Reality

In football, it's the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate. Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life - or at least the way life should be.

Life Best Football Job End Golf

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

Poetry Waiting Rose Down Canyon

I am not going to condemn anybody. That's where religion gets a bad name, when people get holier than thou. We are all human. If my children make a mistake, I want them to know it is all right and they should try harder next time.

Children Time Religion I Am People

I was at the vice president's Christmas party. I thought that his speech was spectacular, and I knew that it was a very emotional and difficult thing for him to do, but I admonished him for not waiting just one more stinking day.

Bradley Whitford

Day Waiting Thought Speech Party

I don't think that golf has a place for two sets of rules. I think one of the reasons that the game has progressed in the way that it has over the years is the fact that the amateurs and the pros all play the same game, and they play under the same set of rules.

Game Think Golf Rules Place Play

No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.

Fools Know Nothing Understand Only

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