Old as he was, he still missed his daddy sometimes. Gloria Naylor More Quotes by Gloria Naylor More Quotes From Gloria Naylor 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. Gloria Naylor blackhairbeautiful 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. Gloria Naylor alphabetstoppingworld 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. Gloria Naylor spoiledbornhalf 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. Gloria Naylor workdoorsjobs 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 smartpainpeople 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. Gloria Naylor bodyblessedspirit A myth is more powerful - and more lasting - than reality. Gloria Naylor mythpowerfulreality 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. Gloria Naylor glasseshurtmemories 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. Gloria Naylor citiesnew-yorkbelieve The right woman is the one you can live with, not the one in your head. 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 communitylawpeople 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 funny-thingsmindyears 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. Gloria Naylor knowinghomelong Self-consciousness is really a form of egotism. Gloria Naylor consciousnessformself Why do I write? The truth, the unvarnished truth, is that I haven't a clue. Gloria Naylor cluetruth-iswriting 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 goodyoulifebelieve Lord keep her safe since you can't keep her sane. Gloria Naylor heryousafelord 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 roadmepeoplepast 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 behindownreputationmy-own
