Children Quote by Gayl Jones

“But don't we all want to be in the presence of someone who makes us feel larger and better than what we can ourselves…

— Gayl Jones

There are things that a woman sings, and only a woman knows the full meaning. You may sing for men as well as for…

— Gayl Jones

I don't like that word 'discovery.' ... Sinatra was the first one to call Ray Charles a genius, he spoke of 'the genius of…

— Gayl Jones

I learned to write by listening to people talk. I still feel that the best of my writing comes from having heard rather than…

— Gayl Jones

“I lay on my back, feeling as if more than the womb had been taken out.”

— Gayl Jones

You change the rhythm of the talk and respoonse and you change the rhythm between the talk and the response.

— Gayl Jones

When you tell a story you automatically talk about traditions, but they're never separate from the people, the human implications. You're talking about your…

— Gayl Jones

“She was closed up like a fist. It her very own memory, not theirs, her very own real and terrible and lonely and dark…

— Gayl Jones

My great-grandmama told my grandmama the part she lived through that my grandmama didn't live through and my grandmama told my mama what they…

— Gayl Jones

“It was as if she had more than learned it off by heart. Though. it was as if their memory, the memory of all…

— Gayl Jones

A lot of people they don’t know that Africans even named the stars, that different peoples, different so-called native peoples, have their own names…

— Gayl Jones

I believe that all literatures can have political uses and misuses. Sometimes politics can enhance, sometimes it can get in the way of imaginative…

— Gayl Jones