Quotes by Gloria Naylor

Gloria Naylor

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.

Lasts

Loud Voices

Silence

A myth is more powerful – and more lasting – than reality.

Myth

Powerful

Reality

a star dies in heaven every time you snatch away someone’s dream.

Dream

Heaven

Stars

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.

Beautiful

Black

Hair

Contempt mates well with pity.

Disrespect

Mates

Pity

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.

Home

Knowing

Long

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.

Believe

Grieving

Life

I don’t want to write without a sense of drama, without passion, or without both eyes open to the world around me.

Drama

Passion

Writing

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.

Technology

Two

World

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.

Blessed

Body

Spirit

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Accepting What Is

Advice

Alive

Alphabet

America

Art

Artist

Beautiful

Believe

Black

Blessed

Body

Book

Born

Caught

Caught Up

Cities

Clue

Community

Consciousness

Consensus

Cousin

Creative

Dad

Daddy

Disrespect

Doors

Drama

Dream

Father

Fathers Day

Firsts

Form

Friendship

Funny Things

Giving

Glasses

Grieving

Hair

Half

Hands

Healing

Heaven

Home

Hurt

Inspire

Jobs

Knowing

Lasts

Laughter

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Quotes by Gloria Naylor

Gloria Naylor

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.

A myth is more powerful – and more lasting – than reality.

a star dies in heaven every time you snatch away someone’s dream.

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.

Contempt mates well with pity.

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.

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.

I don’t want to write without a sense of drama, without passion, or without both eyes open to the world around me.

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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