• My father owned pit bulls when I was young. He sometimes fought them. My brother and a lot of the men in my community owned pit bulls as well: sometimes they fought them for honor, never for money.

    Jesmyn Ward: My father owned pit bulls when I was young. He sometimes fought them. My brother and a lot of the men in my community owned pit bulls as well: sometimes they fought them for honor, never for money.
    Jesmyn Ward (2011). “Salvage the Bones: A Novel”, p.277, Bloomsbury Publishing USA