Gloria Naylor quotes

Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song. (Gloria Naylor)
Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. View quote
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Life is accepting what is and working from that. View quote
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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. View quote
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I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel. View quote
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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. View quote
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The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul. View quote
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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. View quote
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The right woman is the one you can live with, not the one in your head. View quote
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Self-consciousness is really a form of egotism. View quote
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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. (Gloria Naylor)
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. View quote
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I realize at one point, that I was being followed, and then I began to see the surveillance that was going past the road on my house. And so, these cars began to surveil me. People began to follow me around, and it did, it was very disrupting to think that your privacy was being violated, and for no reason that I could come up with. View quote
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You can't teach talent. You can't put in what God left out - but you can teach confidence. View quote
Gloria Naylor

Gloria Naylor

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Occupation: American Novelist
Born: January 25, 1950
Died: September 28, 2016
Quotes count: 14