Tayari Jones Quotes

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.

Tayari Jones

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 30, 1970

Topics

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I started working with friends of mine and that, to some degree, continues.

Jim Jarmusch

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I guess it feels to me that the political argument that has been lost in my lifetime is taxation. How do you engage in that debate when people don't trust politicians at all? It is almost impossible to start a conversation about taxation.

Johann Lamont

TrustPeopleMeStartImpossible

A boy is naturally full of humor.

Robert Powell

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When I was young, I grew up in a family of working-class people. Not just my parents, but my extended family, as well.

Matt de la Pena

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When it comes to sending my children to college, I want the best education. It's the only thing I'm really leaving them - a good education.

Sloan Wilson

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I enjoy learning about other people. I really didn't understand that until 'Moonlight.'

Trevante Rhodes

LearningPeopleEnjoyUnderstand

White people in North America live in a social environment that protects and insulates them from race-based stress. This insulated environment of racial protection builds white expectations for racial comfort while at the same time lowering the ability to tolerate racial stress.

Robin DiAngelo

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It's fun when you create a world to inhabit it and see the other characters from grounds eye view.

Mike White

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There was a joke in Czechoslovakia: The Communist Party dance, it's one step forward, two steps backward, and everyone is still clapping.

Martina Navratilova

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Of course women can have it all - if they want it all. I won't hear any defeatist talk. If you just dwell on problems, you won't get anywhere fast.

Louise Mensch

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I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.

Josef Albers

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I became a recluse many times and enjoyed a private life I didn't have during the '60s.

Donovan

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