Tayari Jones Quotes

• If there was ever a time to boil up some grits it is now.

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  Grit, Ifs

  Tayari Jones (2012). “Silver Sparrow”, p.314, Algonquin Books

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• Remember that the writing itself is good for you. If your story is so close to home that you are afraid to write it, it probably means you need to write it.

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  Home, Writing, Mean

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• When you write a novel, you make other people see your imaginary friends.

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  Writing, People, Novel

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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. But there is this telling and there is such a thing as passing through.

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  Moving, Past, Passing

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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 girls and writing mentors because it changes their lives.

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  Girl, Writing, Organization

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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 all you get. Sometimes, you just have to hope that's enough.

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  People, Stronger, Sometimes

  Tayari Jones (2012). “Silver Sparrow”, p.340, Algonquin Books

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• When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.

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  Lying, Fiction, Want

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• When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional illusion, I guess.

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  Real, Escritura, Emocional

  "Tayari Jones Knows Why She Sings". Interview with Ru Freeman, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 09, 2012.

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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 driving the precious air from your body.

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  Air, Skins, Body

  Tayari Jones (2012). “Silver Sparrow”, p.53, Algonquin Books

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• No me importa expresar mis opiniones y denunciar las injusticias. Lo haría aunque no fuera escritora. Crecí en un hogar que creía en la justicia social. Siempre me he sentido en la obligación de ponerme del lado de los silenciados, los oprimidos y los maltratados.

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  Justice, Mind, Sides

  "Tayari Jones Knows Why She Sings". Interview with Ru Freeman, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2012.

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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 serial murderer that left at least 29 African-American children dead.

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  Children, Atlanta, Cities

  "Tayari Jones Knows Why She Sings". Interview with Ru Freeman, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 09, 2012.

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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. 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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  Mother, Coffee, Heart

  Tayari Jones (2012). “Silver Sparrow”, p.27, Algonquin Books

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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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  Creating, Perfect, Three

  Tayari Jones (2012). “Silver Sparrow”, p.45, Algonquin Books

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• Secret families are really the bedrock issue of Western literature.

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  Issues, Secret, Literature

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• I am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule.

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  Writing, Practice, Honor

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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 said to set up shop there if you want to swap your soul for something more useful. If you believe that God can be bribed, it's also the hallowed ground to make sacrifices. In the literal sense, it's also a place to change direction, but once you've changed it, you're stuck until you come to another crossroads, and who knows how long that will be.

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  Religioso, Creer, Sacrificio

  Tayari Jones (2012). “Silver Sparrow”, p.133, Algonquin Books

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• I like straightforward names for my characters. When I get too symbolic with names or places, I start feeling like the characters and the story are less read, and I lose interest.

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  Character, Names, Feelings

  "Tayari Jones Knows Why She Sings". Interview with Ru Freeman, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 09, 2012.

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• Creo que a la NAACP no se le reconoce lo suficiente todo el trabajo que hace, especialmente en el campo del derecho. Puede que hayan pasado desapercibidos en las dos últimas décadas, pero siguen luchando.

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  Pareja, Lucha, Pensamiento

  "Tayari Jones Knows Why She Sings". Interview with Ru Freeman, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 09, 2012.

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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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  Pain, Dwelling, Texture

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• Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways.

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  Way, Modern, Adolescence

  "Coming to the Festival of Books: Tayari Jones". Los Angeles Times Interview, latimesblogs.latimes.com. April 25, 2011.

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• El protagonista adolescente es una de las señas de identidad de la literatura estadounidense.

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  Literature, Hallmark, American Literature

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• I was kind of an invisible girl when I was young.

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  Girl, Kind, Invisible

  "'Silver Sparrow,' Tayari Jones' Tale Of Secret Sisters". "All Things Considered" with Michele Norris, www.npr.org. May 19, 2011.

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• I take mentoring very seriously and as a result I hardly get any work done during the school year.

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  School, Years, Mentor

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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 on a loose thread will transform your warm sweater into a mangled heap of yarn that you can't reuse or repair.

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  Love Is, Yarn, Sweaters

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• I do have a sister - I have two sisters.

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  Two, Two Sisters

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