Gloria Naylor Quotes

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• I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or to make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make…
• Old as he was, he still missed his daddy sometimes.
• Life is accepting what is and working from that.
• One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work.
• Time is a funny thing. I was always puzzled with the way a single day could stretch itself out to the point of eternity in…
• Home. It's being new and old all rolled into one. Measuring your new against old friends, old ways, old places, Knowing that as long as…
• Words themselves are innocuous; it is the consensus that gives them true power.
• Why do I write? The truth, the unvarnished truth, is that I haven't a clue.
• Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.
• There is a problem in America. An Irish or Polish American can write a story and it's an American story. When a Black American writes…
• Self-consciousness is really a form of egotism.
• You can't teach talent. You can't put in what God left out - but you can teach confidence.
• The intelligence community, for the most part, has no accountability at all; to the Congress, to us the American people, and so they feel that…
• Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go... And a time to…
• There's something hypocritical about a city that keeps half of its population underground half of the time; you can start believing that there's much more…
• Once I unlocked the mystery of the alphabet that led to words, a multitude of words connecting me to the world, there was no stopping…
• I don't want to write without a sense of drama, without passion, or without both eyes open to the world around me.
• Spoiled. That's all it's about - can't live without this, can't live without that. You can live without anything you weren't born with, and you…
• Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.
• They all trying to say something with music that you can't say with plain talk. There ain't really no words for love or pain. And…

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