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Tayari Jones has 25 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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And this is how it started. Just with coffee and the exchange of their long stories. Love can be incremental. Predicaments, too.…
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Abandonment doesn't have the sharp but dissipating sting of a slap. It's like a punch to the gut, bruising your skin and…
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I am neither religious nor superstitious, but there is something otherworldly about the space where two roads come together. The devil is…
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If there was ever a time to boil up some grits it is now.
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I guess this is how love is when it comes undone. No matter how tight you knit the stitches, a sharp tug…
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Dwelling on pain, spending too much time immersed in it, tasting its flavors, fingering its textures--this makes it only more potent.
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It's funny how three or four notes of anger can be struck at once, creating the perfect chord of fury.
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My first novel, Leaving Atlanta, took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the city was terrorized by a…
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This is what I have come to know: Our past is never passed and there is no such thing as moving on.…
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I take mentoring very seriously and I am on the board of an organization called Girls Write Now, where we match teen…
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I don't mind expressing my opinions and speaking out against injustice. I would be doing this even if I wasn't a writer.…
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If we can rebuild Iraq, we can rebuild Illinois and Indiana and if we can do Baghdad, we can do Baltimore.
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I started playing the piano when I was about two and got a scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore…
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I don't have many heroes. Very plain and simply, Johnny Unitas was one of my heroes. When you think of Baltimore, you…
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I grew up in Baltimore and that's why I root for the Orioles. I'm very suspicious of people who move and take…
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I went to a Catholic high school, which, to this day, I could burn down. And I got great revenge because they…
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I love Baltimore, I want to retire a raven
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If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery. I have the same violent temper my father…
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The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore. True, you can…
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I was devastated. I'm still devastated to this day. When talent like that disappears in a flash, you can't believe it. You…
— Helen Merrill
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We started playing the Baltimore Colts early, and I was still very impressed with Johnny Unitas, who just passed away recently. I…
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I have enjoyed the years enormously in Cleveland and especially in Baltimore
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