The right woman is the one you can live with, not the one in your head. — Gloria Naylor Copy Share Image
We get so caught up in what a man isn't. It's what he is that counts. — Gloria Naylor Copy Share Image
One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work. — Gloria Naylor Copy Share Image
black isn't beautiful and it isn't ugly - black is! It's not kinky hair and it's not straight hair - it just… — Gloria Naylor Beautiful Copy Share Image
“Etta and Mattie went way back, a singular term that claimed co-knowledge of all the important events in their lives and almost… — Gloria Naylor Copy Share Image
“Like they say, it takes all types to make the world. But sometimes you wish it didn't.” — Gloria Naylor Copy Share Image
I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed… — Gloria Naylor Copy Share Image
That's one of the privileges of old age - you can give plenty of advice 'cause most folks think that's all you… — Gloria Naylor Advice Copy Share Image
The last time you're doing something - knowing you're doing it for the last - makes it even more alive than the… — Gloria Naylor Alive Copy Share Image
A loud voice is not always angry; a soft voice not always to be dismissed; and a well-placed silence can be the… — Gloria Naylor Angry Copy Share Image
The intelligence community, for the most part, has no accountability at all; to the Congress, to us the American people, and so… — Gloria Naylor Above the law Copy Share Image
“Time's passage through the memory is like molten glass that can be opaque or crystallize at any given moment at will: a… — Gloria Naylor Memory Copy Share Image
There is a problem in America. An Irish or Polish American can write a story and it's an American story. When a… — Gloria Naylor America Copy Share Image
Home. It's being new and old all rolled into one. Measuring your new against old friends, old ways, old places, Knowing that… — Gloria Naylor Copy Share Image
Even though the planet is round, there are just too many spots where you can find yourself hanging on to the edge… — Gloria Naylor Earth Copy Share Image
Time is a funny thing. I was always puzzled with the way a single day could stretch itself out to the point… — Gloria Naylor Clock Copy Share Image
“There is nothing in back of this cafe. Since the place sits right on the margin between the edge of the world… — Gloria Naylor Cafe Copy Share Image
“He holds his glass up and turns to me as a single flake catches on the rim before melting down the one… — Gloria Naylor Copy Share Image
In a contest between new technology and old ways of life, it is the traditional rhythms that will hold. Traditional societies make… — Gloria Naylor Copy Share Image
“Brewster Place became especially fond of its colored daughters as they milled like determined spirits among its decay, trying to make it… — Gloria Naylor Children Copy Share Image
“I never dreamed that she meant lights. Sparkling. Shimmering. Waves of light. We could see them from the front of the cafe.… — Gloria Naylor Copy Share Image
Writers are voracious readers. Once I unlocked the mystery of the alphabet that led to words, a multitude of words connecting me… — Gloria Naylor Alphabet Copy Share Image
I realize at one point, that I was being followed, and then I began to see the surveillance that was going past… — Gloria Naylor Copy Share Image
“2)"Even though this planet is round, there are just too many spots where you can find yourself hanging on to the edge… — Gloria Naylor End of the world Copy Share Image
Six months of looking for a job had made me an expert at picking out the people who, like me, were hurrying… — Gloria Naylor Birth Copy Share Image
She could walk through a lightning storm without being touched; grab a bolt of lightning in the palm of her hand; use… — Gloria Naylor Copy Share Image
Words themselves are innocuous; it is the consensus that gives them true power. — Gloria Naylor Consensus Copy Share Image
“Life's too short to spend time trying to explain the obvious to an idiot.” — Gloria Naylor Copy Share Image
Why do I write? The truth, the unvarnished truth, is that I haven't a clue. — Gloria Naylor Copy Share Image
“I was so busy enjoying the change in you, I didn't notice it in myself.” — Gloria Naylor Change Copy Share Image
a star dies in heaven every time you snatch away someone's dream. — Gloria Naylor Astronomy Copy Share Image
