Gloria Naylor Quotes

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• Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.

  Gloria Naylor

  Song, Healing, Stories

  Gloria Naylor, Maxine Lavon Montgomery (2004). “Conversations with Gloria Naylor”, p.11, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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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 you feel.

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  Life, Believe, Grieving

  Gloria Naylor (2017). “Bailey's Cafe: A Novel”, p.147, Open Road Media

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• A loud voice is not always angry; a soft voice not always to be dismissed; and a well-placed silence can be the indisputable last word.

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  Loud Voices, Silence, Lasts

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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. When a Black American writes a story, it's called a Black story. I take exception to that. Every artist has articulated to his own experience. The problem is that some people do not see Blacks as Americans.

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  Writing, Artist, America

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• 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 prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

  Gloria Naylor

  Friendship, Letting Go, Art

  Gloria Naylor (2005). “The Women of Brewster Place”, p.56, Penguin

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• The right woman is the one you can live with, not the one in your head.

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• Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.

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  Mother Daughter, Fathers Day, Dad

  Gloria Naylor (2017). “Mama Day: A Novel”, p.185, Open Road Media

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• The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul.

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  Love, Laughter, Missing

  Gloria Naylor (2017). “Linden Hills: A Novel”, p.25, Open Road Media

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• a star dies in heaven every time you snatch away someone's dream.

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  Dream, Stars, Heaven

  Gloria Naylor (2017). “Bailey's Cafe: A Novel”, p.45, Open Road Media

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• Life is accepting what is and working from that.

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  Life, Inspire, Accepting What Is

  Gloria Naylor (2005). “The Women of Brewster Place”, p.85, Penguin

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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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  Talent, Teach, Left

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• We get so caught up in what a man isn't. It's what he is that counts.

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  Men, Caught, Caught Up

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• She could walk through a lightning storm without being touched; grab a bolt of lightning in the palm of her hand; use the heat of lightning to start the kindling going under her medicine pot. She turned the moon into salve, the stars into swaddling cloth, and healed the wounds of every creature walking up on two or down on four.

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  Stars, Moon, Hands

  Gloria Naylor (2017). “Mama Day: A Novel”, p.6, Open Road Media

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• One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work.

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  Writing, Creative, Firsts

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• I don't want to write without a sense of drama, without passion, or without both eyes open to the world around me.

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  Drama, Passion, Writing

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• In a contest between new technology and old ways of life, it is the traditional rhythms that will hold. Traditional societies make up more than two-thirds of the world, the two-thirds that will not be going online to "save" time but will remain wedded to the knowledge that if the bus doesn't come that day, it will come someday. After all, there is nothing but time.

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  Technology, Two, World

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• 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 can make it through on even half of that.

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  Half, Spoiled, Born

  Gloria Naylor (2017). “Mama Day: A Novel”, p.184, Open Road Media

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• The last time you're doing something - knowing you're doing it for the last - makes it even more alive than the first.

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  Knowing, Alive, Lasts

  Gloria Naylor (2017). “Mama Day: A Novel”, p.224, Open Road Media

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• Words themselves are innocuous; it is the consensus that gives them true power.

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  True Power, Giving, Consensus

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• It's as if I've arrived in a place where it's all spirit and no body -- an overwhelming sense of calm . . . I actually began to feel blessed.

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  Blessed, Body, Spirit

  Gloria Naylor, Maxine Lavon Montgomery (2004). “Conversations with Gloria Naylor”, p.25, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• That's one of the privileges of old age - you can give plenty of advice 'cause most folks think that's all you got left anyway.

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  Thinking, Giving, Advice

  Gloria Naylor (1990). “Selected from the Women of Brewster Place”, Signal Hill Publications

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• black isn't beautiful and it isn't ugly - black is! It's not kinky hair and it's not straight hair - it just is.

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  Beautiful, Hair, Black

  Gloria Naylor (2005). “The Women of Brewster Place”, p.66, Penguin

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• 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 me.

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  Stopping, World, Alphabet

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• Writers are voracious readers. 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 me. Everything was fair game, from Louisa May Alcott to my older cousin's True Romance Magazines, from Lewis Carroll to the backs of cereal boxes. All of this fed me, but it took certain books to make me grow. I don't want to work without a sense of drama, without passion, or without both eyes open to the world around me.

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  Cousin, Drama, Book

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• 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 the way I see it, only fools go around trying to talk their love or talk their pain. So the smart people make music and you can kinda hear about it without them saying anything.

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  Pain, Smart, People

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