Jesmyn Ward Quotes About Racism

Quotes about: Racism

• By the numbers, by all the official records, here at the confluence of history, of racism, of poverty, and economic power, this is what our lives are worth: nothing.

  Jesmyn Ward

  Numbers, Racism, Records

  Jesmyn Ward (2013). “Men We Reaped: A Memoir”, p.139, A&C Black

• 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.

  Jesmyn Ward

  Mother, Running, Growing Up

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• There are things about the South - the politics, the classism, the racism - that I hate, and I want to be here to fight those things. I don't want to be in California or Michigan just complaining about them. I'm here trying to make a difference in the way I can, writing about it. And I want younger people, especially kids from my community, to see that being successful doesn't have to mean leaving a place like this. You don't have to trade in your family or your sense of belonging for that.

  Jesmyn Ward

  Hate, Writing, Mean

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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