Gloria Naylor Quotes

• 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.

  Gloria Naylor

  Topics in Life

• 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

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• 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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• Self-consciousness is really a form of egotism.

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• 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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  You can’t teach talent. You can’t put in what God left out – but you can teach confidence.

   

  Gloria Naylor

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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 allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over.

  Gloria Naylor

  Topics in Art, Friendship

  Tags in Friends, Silence

• 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

• 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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• Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.

  Gloria Naylor

• 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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• Lord keep her safe since you can’t keep her sane.

  Gloria Naylor

• Life is accepting what is and working from that.

  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 (14)

Birth:	25th January, 1950
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist, Professor

About

Gloria Naylor was born in New York City, New York, USA. She is an American novelist. She earned her bachelor's degree in English at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York in 1981. She obtained a master's degree in African American Studies from Yale University in 1983. During her career as a professor, she taught writing and literature at several universities, including George Washington University, New York University, Boston University, and Cornell University. She has written several novels include: The Women of Brewster Place(won National Book Award for First Novel), Linden Hills, Mama Day, Bailey's Cafe, and The Men of Brewster Place(won American Book Awards).

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