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Jesmyn Ward Quotes

People give the South a bad rap. It's often stereotyped as backwards and close-minded and dogmatic, and all of those things have been true. But I think that the South is changing, slowly but surely.

Jesmyn Ward

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american

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People Think Bad True Backwards Rap

Once my mom passed away, I have nobody to answer to. It's great.

Jessica Hahn

Great Mom Nobody Answer Away Once

It's great that Time is moving in the direction of validating those who, by choice or circumstance, will never be parents. But the point is not simply that society should stop judging those of us who don't have children. It's that society actually needs us. Children need us.

Meghan Daum

Children Great Time Parents Moving

I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.

Robert Morgan

Love You Can Do It Language Long You

Busy is good, you know. Busy is better than bored, and there's more recognition. Like, I try to feign the anonymity which I had before 'O.J.'

Sterling K. Brown

Good Busy Better Recognition You

You have to be strong for people when you don't wanna be strong. You have to be clean-showered, clean, clean-cut for people. You have to set an example.

Ski Mask the Slump God

Be Strong People Strong You Clean

I just play music. That makes my whole day. I can practice and be happy.

Trombone Shorty

Music Day Practice Happy Be Happy

The language of freedom-fighting was so co-opted by the baby boomers in order to express their now-hopelessly compromised ideologies that no other generation could emulate it without a smirk. This has created an apathetic generation in the West, with young people no longer distinguishing between the old order and the new.

Romola Garai

People Baby Language Generation New

He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.

Roy L. Smith

Heart Tree Find Christmas Never Who

I do have a really good memory. I mean, like, I can remember all the phone numbers of everybody on the street I grew up on.

Mary Karr

Good Memory Remember Phone I Can Up

Broadband eliminates so many barriers to entry for so many different people that it's actually become a barrier to entry in and of itself if you're not getting online on a regular basis.

Michael K. Powell

People You Become Barriers Different

My 21st birthday was awesome. I was in L.A., and it was great. I had a bunch of friends that came out. The night ended up in a completely different direction than we thought it was going to go.

Jonathan Keltz

Birthday Great Night Direction Go

As proud as I am of being Polish-Canadian, sometimes I'm so jealous I wasn't born Italian.

Antoni Porowski

I Am Proud Jealous Born Sometimes