Gloria Naylor Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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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.”
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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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“Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.”
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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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“The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul.”
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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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“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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“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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“We get so caught up in what a man isn't. It's what he is that counts.”
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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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“Six months of looking for a job had made me an expert at picking out the people who, like me, were hurrying up to wait - in somebody's outer anything for a chance to make it through their inner doors to prove that you could type two words a minute, or not drool on your blouse while answering difficult questions about your middle initial and date of birth.”
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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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“a star dies in heaven every time you snatch away someone's dream.”
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“A myth is more powerful - and more lasting - than reality.”
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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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“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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“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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“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 space than there really is-to live, to work.”
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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.”
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“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 they above the law.”
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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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“Time's passage through the memory is like molten glass that can be opaque or crystalize at any given moment at will: a thousand days are melted into one conversation, one glance, one hurt, and one hurt can be shattered and sprinkled over a thousand days. It is silent and elusive, refusing to be damned and dripped out day by day; it swirls through the mind while an entire lifetime can ride like foam on the deceptive, transparent waves and get sprayed onto the conciousness at ragged, unexpected intervals.”
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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 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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“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 your mind, all while years melted down into the fraction of a second.”
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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, Knowing that as long as the old survives, you can keep changing as much as you want without the nightmare of waking up to a total stranger.”
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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.”
-- Gloria Naylor
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