Running Quotes by Jesmyn Ward

Jesmyn Ward

I think my love for books sprang from my need to escape the world I was born into, to slide into another where words were straightforward and honest, where there was clearly delineated good and evil, where I found girls who were strong and smart and creative and foolish enough to fight dragons, to run away from home to live in museums, to become child spies, to make new friends and build secret gardens.

Girl

Running

Strong

Jesmyn Ward

I’m writing about the things I see all around me. Growing up in Mississippi, I’ve seen how these backward ideas about class and race and healthcare and education and housing and racism impact everyday lives. For example, my mother wouldn’t let me go to my homecoming dance because the yacht club where they were having the dance threw a fundraiser for David Duke, an ex-Klan member, when he was running for governor of Louisiana. So I grew up seeing how personal politics could be.

Growing Up

Mother

Running

Jesmyn Ward

Speaking specifically about the memoir, I know that’s a criticism that people can have about my work. When I look at the young men’s lives, if they’re reduced to the worst thing they’ve done, then it’s easy for them to become a stereotype. I keep running into that with newspaper articles that are very short.

Men

People

Running

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Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Artist

Baby

Balls

Believe

Black

Bones

Book

Brother

Character

Children

Class

Clear

Country

Couple

Cutting

Delta

Dream

Fall

Father

Fiction

Fighting

Fire

Firsts

Flirting

Girl

Grief

Growing Up

Hands

Hard Work

Hate

Heroines

Home

Hopefully

Hurt

Imagine

Imagine That

Laughter

Letting Go

Mean

Men

Michigan

Millionaire

Mom

Mother

Moving

My Own

Nice

Nudge

Numbers

Opportunity

Pain

Past

People

Perspective

Potters

President

Racism

Reading

Real

Reason

Records

Religious

Running

Safety

Said

School

Slavery

Spiritual

Strong

Struggle

Suffering

Tears

Teenage

Things I Love

Thinking

Together

Trying

Unique

Wanted

Way

Wind

Work Out

Wrestling

Writing

Running Quotes by Jesmyn Ward

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