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Jesmyn Ward Quotes

I do think that people will claim a certain fatigue about talking about race. But I think that even though they do, it's still necessary - completely necessary.

Jesmyn Ward

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american

Topics

People Think Talking Will Race Even

Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food.

Andrew Weil

Food People Kitchen Back Fast Trend

The mainstream media choose to flaunt story lines that make white America appear guilty of continued institutional racism, while black racism against whites is ignored as an acceptable disposition given our nation's history.

Andrew Breitbart

History Racism Story Black Choose

There's always time to go to China at the end of my career.

Mauro Icardi

Time End Career Go Always China

I don't mind my work being a record of the time it was written in.

Max Brooks

Work Time Mind Being Record Written

Punk was more based on social change than on music, so it didn't bother me too much. It wasn't really a musical threat.

Steve Winwood

Change Music Me Too Much More Punk

I long for the days when athletes were revered. I want to see the romance return to sports, to see people enjoy the game purely for the game and the players.

Mike Piazza

Sports People Game Enjoy Long Want

So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide.

Michel Legrand

Go Three Thirty Write Forty See

Humans are vulnerable and rely on the kindnesses of the earth and the sun; we exist together in a sacred field of meaning.

Joy Harjo

Together Sun Meaning Earth Sacred

I can write for a long time on one novel and not get tired.

Judith Guest

Time Tired Long I Can Long Time Get

In high school I became a vegetarian more times than I can now remember, most often as an effort to claim some identity in a world of people whose identities seemed to come effortlessly.

Jonathan Safran Foer

School Effort Identity People World

I read the greens in Spanish, but putt in English.

Chi Chi Rodriguez

English Read Spanish Putt Greens

Nobody ever wants to have change, that's for sure. But when it's good, it's really good.

Paula Creamer

Change Good Nobody Sure Wants Ever