Top 51 Gloria Naylor Quotes
#1. A star dies in heaven every time you snatch away someone's dream.
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#2. A myth is more powerful - and more lasting - than reality.
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#3. We all don't have to see eye to eye in order to see our way to the Kingdom. It's the heart condition of each man that the Lord will judge.
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#4. There are no absolute truths, and the best historians know that. You strive to capture a moment of time, and if your work is done properly, history becomes a written photograph.
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#5. There is nothing in back of this cafe. Since the place sits right on the margin between the edge of the world and infinite possibility, he back door opens out to a void. It takes courage to turn the knob and heart to leave the steps.
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#7. Bloody noses had made them friends, but giving sound to the bruised places in their hearts made them brothers.
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#8. Self-consciousness is really a form of egotism.
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#9. 3)"One man's weed is another man's flower." (115).
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#10. The right woman is the one you can live with, not the one in your head.
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#11. 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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#12. 1) "school isn't where the real learning happens." (3).
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#13. The beginnings are gone, Laurel. But we can start with today and what you got around you.
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#15. Why do I write? The truth, the unvarnished truth, is that I haven't a clue.
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#16. 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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#17. Old as he was, he still missed his daddy sometimes.
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#18. The unpainted walls of the long rectangular room were soaked with the smell of greasy chicken and warm, headless beer. The brown and pink faces floated above the trails of used cigarette smoke like bodiless carnival balloons.
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#19. The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul.
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#21. Words themselves are innocuous; it is the consensus that gives them true power.
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#22. Now that she had actually seen and accepted reality, and reality brought such a healing calm.
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#23. I was so busy enjoying the change in you, I didn't notice it in myself.
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#24. Life is accepting what is and working from that.
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#25. 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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#26. 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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#27. 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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#28. Like they say, it takes all types to make the world. But sometimes you wish it didn't.
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#29. 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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#30. Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
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#31. 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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#32. 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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#33. 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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#34. Just like that chicken coop, everything got four sides: his side, her side, an outside, and an inside. All of it is the truth.
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#35. When you raise a god instead of a child, you're bound to be serving him for the rest of your days. Same thing holds when you marry a god.
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#36. Ut it's one of the reflections of our times. Young minds today are dulled by television and other visual sensations. When reading was one of the few pleasures available, we could recite whole passages to eachother.
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#37. 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.
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#38. Lord keep her safe since you can't keep her sane.
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#39. You don't repay kindness with needless cruelty.
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#40. But 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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#41. I wrote what I felt I had to write, and I'm willing to put my own sanity and my reputation behind it.
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#42. There are many subtle ways with which you can make one strong point.
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#43. We get so caught up in what a man isn't. It's what he is that counts.
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#44. 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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#45. Life's too short to spend time trying to explain the obvious to an idiot.
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#46. 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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#47. 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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#48. Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.
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#49. 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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#50. You can't teach talent. You can't put in what God left out - but you can teach confidence.
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#51. 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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