Author: Jesmyn Ward

Cites

• Bible (2)
  • IN: Where the Line Bleeds (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And Isaac entreated the Lord for his wife, because she was barren: and the Lord was entreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived. And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to inquire of the Lord. And the Lord said unto her... two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels...
    FROM: Genesis 25:21-23, (-165), Bible, NULL
  • IN: Salvage the Bones (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: So now that I, even I am he, and there is no god with me; I kill and I make alive, I wound and I heal, neither is there any can deliver out of my hand.
    FROM: Deuteronomy 32:39, (-165), Bible, NULL
• Pastor Troy (1)
  • IN: Where the Line Bleeds (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Why Jesus equipped with angels and devil equipped with fire? For God so loved the world that he blessed the thug with rock. Won't stop until they feel me. Protect me devil, I think the Lord is trying to kill me.
    FROM: "Vice Versa", (2001), Song, US
• Harriet Tubman (1)
  • IN: Men We Reaped (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We saw the lightning and that was the guns; and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Tupac Shakur (1)
  • IN: Men We Reaped (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Young adolescents in our prime live a life of crime, Though it ain't logical, we hobble through these trying times. Living blind: Lord, help me with my troubled soul. Why all my homies had to die before they got to grow?
    FROM: "Words 2 My Firstborn", (2001), Song, US
• A. R. Ammons (1)
  • IN: Men We Reaped (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I stand on the stump of a child, whether myself or my little brother who died, and yell as far as I can, I cannot leave this place, for for me it is the dearest and the worst, it is life nearest to life which is life lost: it is my place where I must stand....
    FROM: "Easter Morning", (1979), Poem, US
• Gloria Fuertes (1)
  • IN: Salvage the Bones (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: For though I'm small, I know many things, And my body is an endless eye Through which, unfortunately, I see everything.
    FROM: "Now", (1954), Poem, Spain
• Outkast (1)
  • IN: Salvage the Bones (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We on our backs staring at the stars above, Talking about what we going to be when we grow up, I said what you wanna be? She said, "Alive."
    FROM: "Da Art of Storytellin'" (Part 1), Aquemini, (1999), Song, US
• NULL (1)
  • IN: Sing, Unburied, Sing (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Who are we looking for, who are we looking for? It's Equiano we're looking for. Has he gone to the stream? Let him come back. Has he gone to the farm? Let him return. It's Equiano we're looking for.
    FROM: Kwa chant about the disappearance of Equiano, an African boy, (None), NULL, Africa
• Eudora Welty (1)
  • IN: Sing, Unburied, Sing (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The memory is a living thing -- it too is in transit. But during its moment, all that is remembered joins, and lives -- the old and the young, the past and the present, the living and the dead.
    FROM: One Writer's Beginnings, (1984), Book, US
• Derek Walcott (1)
  • IN: Sing, Unburied, Sing (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The Gulf shines, dull as lead. The coast of Texas glints like a metal rim. I have no home as long as summer bubbling to its head boils for that day when in the Lord God's name the coals of fire are heaped upon the head of all whose gospel is the whip and flame, age after age, the uninstructing dead.
    FROM: "The Gulf", (1969), Book, Saint Lucia