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AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE (Winner: @womensprize, @NAACPImageAward, @aspenwords , Obama’s Reading List & Oprah’s Book Club); C.H. Candler Prof @EmoryUniversity.

Atlanta
Joined April 2007
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“I Believed I Would Never Catch Up”: Bestselling Author Tayari Jones Reveals The Strange Magic Behind Her Literary Stardom - British Vogue bit.ly/2zsTTA0
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Tayari Jones retweeted
An immigrant doesn’t stand between you and a good job. A billionaire does.
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Did the whole of Atlanta wake up with a headache this morning?
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how lucky to spend the summer immersed in the scholarship of @alexispauline who stewards Black feminist thought and lineages. here, we luxuriated in her fantastic new biography of audre lorde, which recasts lorde's notions of survival on the scale of planetary, cosmic >> nytimes.com/2024/08/22/magaz…
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‘If you wanna know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.’ Happy beeday, Dorothy Parker
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Tayari Jones retweeted
Kamala Harris is going to win Georgia. Pass it on.
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For @harpersbazaarus, I wrote about Toni Morrison’s usage of food as a motif & ultimate symbolism throughout her work. What an honor to pen a piece about one of my literary heroines. harpersbazaar.com/culture/ar…
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Thank you for your service, sir.
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I actually choked up a little with that line. AMERICA, I GAVE MY BEST TO YOU.
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It's midnight. I am sitting here trying not to yawn like I think he can see me.
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I know there is a weight off Joe Biden that can’t be explained. To hand off the entire free world to someone and then see the nation get behind her with ferver and ferociousness. #DNC2024CHICAGO #DemConvention2024
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she loves her daddy.
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The Bidens are so gracious tonight.
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Everyone who keeps a diary has an affinity for Ashley Biden. I can't believe they stole her journal and sold it.
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Tayari Jones retweeted
I was proud to fulfill my promise to appoint the first Black woman to the Supreme Court.
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Let’s get it done, America. Let’s heal the land.
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Our Morehouse Brother, CLASS OF 1991 is taking the stage!
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so proud of these brave women.
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The Democrats are really getting this party started. Let me go ahead and book this room for January 20th.
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