Harris > Harris's Quotes

“...living here, you don't know anything about white people. Where I'm from, everything is mixed. In Atlanta, at least out here where we stay at, everything is so black that y'all don't know what it feels like to be black.”
― Tayari Jones, Silver Sparrow

“My skin stayed the same while this difference snuck in through a pore and attached itself to whatever brittle part forms my center.”
― Tayari Jones, Silver Sparrow

“The next customer in line was a white woman who had purchased a set of baby’s pajamas for her pregnant sister.

“Men,” the customer said. “Who can understand the way their minds work?”

Mother knew what the lady was talking about, but she couldn’t laugh at a black man with her, even though she was only laughing at him for being a man.”
― Tayari Jones, Silver Sparrow