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Gloria Naylor quotes

American Novelist January 25, 1950

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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. Gloria Naylor
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. Gloria Naylor
Gloria Naylor quote: "Life is accepting what is and working from that."
Life is accepting what is and working from that. Gloria Naylor
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... Gloria Naylor
Gloria Naylor quote: "The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the..."
The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul. Gloria Naylor
Gloria Naylor quote: "You can't teach talent. You can't put in what God left out -..."
You can't teach talent. You can't put in what God left out - but you can teach confidence. Gloria Naylor
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. Gloria Naylor
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. Gloria Naylor
Gloria Naylor quote: "Feminism is the radical notion that women are people."
Feminism is the radical notion that women are people. 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. Gloria Naylor
Gloria Naylor quote: "Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes."
Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. Gloria Naylor
He holds his glass up and turns to me as a single flake catches on the rim before melting down the one side into an amber world where bubbles burst and are born, burst and are born. Gloria Naylor
Gloria Naylor quote: "One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel..."
One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work. Gloria Naylor
Gloria Naylor quote: "Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in..."
Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song. Gloria Naylor
Gloria Naylor quote: "I wrote what I felt I had to write, and I'm willing to put my..."
I wrote what I felt I had to write, and I'm willing to put my own sanity and my reputation behind it. Gloria Naylor

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