The right woman is the one you can live with, not the one in your head. — Gloria Naylor Right woman Copy Share Image
We get so caught up in what a man isn't. It's what he is that counts. — Gloria Naylor Caught Copy Share Image
Words themselves are innocuous; it is the consensus that gives them true power. — Gloria Naylor Consensus 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 Believe 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
I don't want to write without a sense of drama, without passion, or without both eyes open to the world around me. — Gloria Naylor Drama Copy Share Image
Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song. — Gloria Naylor Eloquent 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 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 Bubbles Burst Copy Share Image
They all trying to say something with music that you can't say with plain talk. There ain't really no words for love… — Gloria Naylor Fool Copy Share Image
We cannot tell the exact moment a friendship is formed; as in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last… — Gloria Naylor Friend Copy Share Image
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go... And… — Gloria Naylor About friendship Copy Share Image
There's something hypocritical about a city that keeps half of its population underground half of the time; you can start believing that… — Gloria Naylor Believe 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 Bus 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 God bless 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
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
“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
She could walk through a lightning storm without being touched; grab a bolt of lightning in the palm of her hand; use… — Gloria Naylor Creatures Copy Share Image
“Life's too short to spend time trying to explain the obvious to an idiot.” — Gloria Naylor End time 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
“Like they say, it takes all types to make the world. But sometimes you wish it didn't.” — Gloria Naylor Copy Share Image
You can't teach talent. You can't put in what God left out - but you can teach confidence. — Gloria Naylor Confidence Copy Share Image
The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul. — Gloria Naylor Laughter Copy Share Image
Why do I write? The truth, the unvarnished truth, is that I haven't a clue. — Gloria Naylor Clue 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
One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work. — Gloria Naylor Able Copy Share Image
