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

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

Tayari Jones

“An early editor characterized my books as 'romantic comedy for intelligent adults.' I think people see them as funny but kind. I don't set out to write either funny or kind, but it's a voice they like, quirky like me... And you know, people like happy endings.”
“Man, my girl is one tough chick when she wants to be. I wonder if it has something to do with those big, comfy granny panties sheâ€™s got on.”
“Because of acting I've gotten to travel and meet so many amazing people, and they inspire new songs.”

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“There's a whole split personality thing of being a farm girl and a rock and roll girl.”
“the conversation whipped gaily around the table like rags in a high wind.”
“We don't accomplish anything in this world alone... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something.”
“There is no solitude more dreadful for a stranger, an isolated man, than a great city; so many thousands of men and not one friend.”
“Until the 19th century, the term 'to consume' was used mainly in its negative connotations ofÂ 'destruction' and 'waste'.Â Tuberculosis was known as 'consumption', that is, a wasting disease.Â ThenÂ economists came up with a bizarre theory, which has become widely accepted, according to which the basis of a sound economy is a continual increase in the consumption (that is, waste) ofÂ Â goods”

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