"Self-consciousness is really a form of egotism." — Gloria Naylor
"Self-consciousness is really a form of egotism."
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Gloria Naylor
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28 Quotes by Gloria Naylor
Gloria Naylor has 28 quotes on this site.
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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…
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Old as he was, he still missed his daddy sometimes.
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Life is accepting what is and working from that.
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One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire…
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Time is a funny thing. I was always puzzled with the way a single day could stretch itself out to…
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Home. It's being new and old all rolled into one. Measuring your new against old friends, old ways, old places,…
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Words themselves are innocuous; it is the consensus that gives them true power.
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Why do I write? The truth, the unvarnished truth, is that I haven't a clue.
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Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes…
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There is a problem in America. An Irish or Polish American can write a story and it's an American story.…
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You can't teach talent. You can't put in what God left out - but you can teach confidence.
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The intelligence community, for the most part, has no accountability at all; to the Congress, to us the American people,…
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As an actress, I think there is always a political consciousness there.
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