Edward P. Jones Quotes

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Whenever people in that part of the world asked Patterson about the wonders of America, the possibilities and the hope of America, Patterson would say that it was a good and fine place but all the Americans were running it into the ground and that it would be a far better place if it had no Americans.

Edward P. Jones
The hitter can never be the judge. Only the receiver of the blow can tell you how hard it was, whether it would kill a man or make a baby just yawn.

Edward P. Jones
Henry had always said that he wanted to be a better master than any white man he had ever known. He did not understand that the kind of world he wanted to create was doomed before he had even spoken the first syllable of the word master.

Edward P. Jones
It's a shame before God, the way they do all Aunt Hagar's children.

Edward P. Jones
Remember, every happy birthday boy is headed for his grave.

Edward P. Jones
She was eighty-six years old, and had learned that life was all chaos and painful uncertainty and that the only way to get through it was to expect chaos even in the most innocent of moments. Offer a crust of bread to a sick bird and you often drew back a bloody finger.

Edward P. Jones
The heart can be cruel, the heart can be wicked, the heart can give joy. but it is always an instrument we can never understand.

Edward P. Jones
It is a map of life made with every kind of art man has ever thought to represent himself. Yes, clay. Yes, paint. Yes, cloth.... It is what God sees when He looks down.

Edward P. Jones
They were the children of once-upon-a-time slaves, born into a kind of freedom, but they had traveled down through the wombs with what all their kind had been born with—the knowledge that God had promised next week to everyone but themselves.

Edward P. Jones