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“Closing her eyes hard to stifle tears the way pressing down on a cut stops bleeding, Tasha felt dumb as a rock.” (Leaving Atlanta Quotes)
Tayari Jones
Leaving Atlanta
“Kodak commercials say that a picture is worth a thousand words, but the one they showed of Rodney ain’t worth more than three or four. Boy. Black.”
Tayari Jones
Leaving Atlanta
“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.”
Tayari Jones
Leaving Atlanta
“Now, Tasha felt stupid. Monica was right. Tasha was immature. And Daddy was in the wrong too. He should have said, Tasha, DeShaun, your mother and I have been playing with matches and your whole life is on fire.”
Tayari Jones
Leaving Atlanta
“Separated were kids who only had a mother to come and hear them say a poem on Black History Day. Or the ones who had stepfathers that they called by their first names.”
Tayari Jones
Leaving Atlanta
“The magic that came from lips could be as cruel as children and as erratic as a rubber ball ricocheting off concrete.”
Tayari Jones
Leaving Atlanta
