"And this is how it started. Just with……" — Tayari Jones
"And this is how it started. Just with coffee and the exchange of their long stories. Love can be incremental. Predicaments, too. Coffee can start a life just as it can start a day. This was the meeting of two people who were destined to love from before they were born, from before they made choices that would complicate their lives. This love just rolled toward my mother as though she were standing at the bottom of a steep hill. Mother had no hand in this, only heart."
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25 Quotes by Tayari Jones
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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…
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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…
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I am neither religious nor superstitious, but there is something otherworldly about the space where two roads come together. The…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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This is what I have come to know: Our past is never passed and there is no such thing as…
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I take mentoring very seriously and I am on the board of an organization called Girls Write Now, where we…
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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…
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Remember that the writing itself is good for you. If your story is so close to home that you are…
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As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of…
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I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in which he was born.
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We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.
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I was born in the Ottawa General Hospital right after the Gray Cup Football Game in 1939. Six months later,…
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Art is born of humiliation.
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What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.
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You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where…
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The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What…
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center…
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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as…
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