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title: "2 Grits Quotes By Tayari Jones"
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> [“This, I now know, is how people go crazy and do things they regret. Look at the woman who almost killed Al Green.I am sure she cooked those grits, fully intending to eat them for breakfast. Then he did something…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tayari-jones/this-i-now-know-is-how-people-go-crazy-and-do-things-they-regret-look/)

[Tayari Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tayari-jones/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/089/tayari-jones-12857_grit_this-i-now-know-is-how-people-go-crazy-a_2387332.jpg)

> [If there was ever a time to boil up some grits it is now.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tayari-jones/if-there-was-ever-a-time-to-boil-up-some-grits-it-is-now/)

[Tayari Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tayari-jones/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f32/tayari-jones-12857_boil_if-there-was-ever-a-time-to-boil-up-some_3175321.png)

## Other authors on Grits

## More by Tayari Jones

> [I was kind of an invisible girl when I was young.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tayari-jones/i-was-kind-of-an-invisible-girl-when-i-was-young/)

[Tayari Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tayari-jones/)

> [Secret families are really the bedrock issue of Western literature.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tayari-jones/secret-families-are-really-the-bedrock-issue-of-western-literature/)

[Tayari Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tayari-jones/)

> [I don't mind expressing my opinions and speaking out against injustice. I would be doing this even if I wasn't a writer. I grew…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tayari-jones/i-don-t-mind-expressing-my-opinions-and-speaking-out-against/)

[Tayari Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tayari-jones/)

> [“Dwayne is right: blood does call to blood. I was always waiting for hers to beckon to mine, but I never considered that it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tayari-jones/dwayne-is-right-blood-does-call-to-blood-i-was-always-waiting-for/)

[Tayari Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tayari-jones/)

> [Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tayari-jones/adolescence-is-a-modern-construct-and-very-american-in-so-many-ways/)

[Tayari Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tayari-jones/)

> [“Marriage is complicated.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tayari-jones/marriage-is-complicated/)

[Tayari Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tayari-jones/)

> [People say, That which doesn't kill you makes you stronger. But they are wrong. What doesn't kill you doesn't kill you. That's all you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tayari-jones/people-say-that-which-doesn-t-kill-you-makes-you-stronger-but-they/)

[Tayari Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tayari-jones/)

> [“Some things were inevitable. You'd have to be a fool to think otherwise.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tayari-jones/some-things-were-inevitable-you-d-have-to-be-a-fool-to-think-otherwise/)

[Tayari Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tayari-jones/)

> [“What right did my father have to the details of my life? He squandered his chance to be the protective father. You can't come…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tayari-jones/what-right-did-my-father-have-to-the-details-of-my-life-he-squandered/)

[Tayari Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tayari-jones/)

> [Dwelling on pain, spending too much time immersed in it, tasting its flavors, fingering its textures--this makes it only more potent.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tayari-jones/dwelling-on-pain-spending-too-much-time-immersed-in-it-tasting-its/)

[Tayari Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tayari-jones/)

> [I guess this is how love is when it comes undone. No matter how tight you knit the stitches, a sharp tug on a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tayari-jones/i-guess-this-is-how-love-is-when-it-comes-undone-no-matter-how-tight/)

[Tayari Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tayari-jones/)

> [“Everything was almost the same with her, but she went about her business in a way that put me in mind of an old…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tayari-jones/everything-was-almost-the-same-with-her-but-she-went-about-her/)

[Tayari Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tayari-jones/)

> [“Although Hermione is right about a great many things, she was wrong about the nature of things gone by. this is what I have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tayari-jones/although-hermione-is-right-about-a-great-many-things-she-was-wrong/)

[Tayari Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tayari-jones/)

> [“On the radio Smokey Robinson complained that "a taste of honey is worse than none at all.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tayari-jones/on-the-radio-smokey-robinson-complained-that-a-taste-of-honey-is/)

[Tayari Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tayari-jones/)

> [“I knew by then that I would never have my mother back, not in the way I had known her all my life. When…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tayari-jones/i-knew-by-then-that-i-would-never-have-my-mother-back-not-in-the-way/)

[Tayari Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tayari-jones/)

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