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I was raised in Mississippi, in a family and a community that identified as black, and I have the stories and the experiences to go with it. One of my great-great grandfathers was killed by a gang of white Prohibition patrollers.


Jesmyn Ward

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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor.
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SARAH J. MAAS I turned.
Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere...
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Otherwis...
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Stars flicker...
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played beneath the ocean
waving through the orb
the memories of ...
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ERIC DICKERSON I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal.
I was a survivor, and I was strong.
I would no...
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There was nothing but uncompromising w...
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His first words to me— not a lie at a...
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And I was not a mouse.
I ...
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ELIZABETH TAYLOR Would you like me to grovel with gratitude for bringing me here, High Lord?"
"Ah. The Suriel to...
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"You could try rubbing ...
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
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STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
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BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Look to your heart and soul first, rather than looking to your head first, when choosing. Rather tha...
JEFFREY R. ANDERSON She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Back in the day for me was a great time in my life - I was in my 20s. Most people refer to their exp...
HERBIE HANCOCK My family was a good family, I had a great Canadian education and I came up in a great, little town ...
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ALLEN WARD I told (Mississippi athletic director Pete Boone and Thomas) once our season was over, they could ta...
ALLEN WARD Especially when we really got hot at the end of season and took off in the conference tournament. He...
ALLEN WARD We'd absolutely love it if our Burnout games worked on 360. But it's down to what Microsoft wants to...
ALEX WARD What I worry about the most is the mind-set of the consumer.
ALEX WARD Guns are loud, exhilarating and utterly terrifying things. BLACK delivers a deep shooting experience...
ALEX WARD I keep reading all over forums that we're going to make a 360 version of BLACK, and it's just not tr...
ALEX WARD The only time you'll see [the BLACK franchise] on the Xbox 360 is when we make BLACK 2 on it in a fe...
ALEX WARD I always tell young actors to have a back-up. You don't want to find yourself at the age of 30 s...
RACHEL WARD A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place...
WARD MCALLISTER The term 'human rights defender,' incidentally, isn't something I or my attorneys came u...
WARD CHURCHILL We're journalists, and so it's our job to be impartial and provide a fair and thorough asses...
CLARISSA WARD Have you any idea what it's like to live under the same roof as four women? Armageddon is the be...
SHAYNE WARD When I first started making music, it was learning other people's songs and putting them onto fo...
M. WARD Draw your salary before spending it.
ARTEMUS WARD You are the sweetest thug I've ever known.
J.R. WARD When her blue-black eyes lifted to his, everything disappeared. Their bodies dematerialized. The roo...
J.R. WARD Sometimes in life, from out of a myriad of prosaic decisions like what to eat and where to sleep and...
J.R. WARD I have already given two cousins to the war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother.
ARTEMUS WARD You get use to someone—start to like them, even—and they leave. In the end, everyone leaves.
RACHEL WARD I still don't think the world has seen the best Andre Ward. Initially, I just wanted to get in t...
ANDRE WARD I got this Christmas gift with the entire Beatles catalog. I had fun trying to duplicate what I was ...
M. WARD I'm not going to throw chairs; I'm not going to cuss. I'm not going to do that kind of s...
ANDRE WARD People will go the path of least resistance.
BRUCE WARD It's just a lot of people. There's a lot going on.
BRUCE WARD We'll be fine once we get some of our stuff open this year.
BRUCE WARD There's (been) a lot of holiday traffic, but that is changing out.
BRUCE WARD As bad as that second goal was, it was like it woke us up.
CAM WARD