“...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

Tayari Jones - “...living here, you don't know anything...” 1

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