Gloria Naylor
Gloria Naylor
Gloria Nayloris an American novelist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 January 1950
CountryUnited States of America
edge hanging planet spots though unless
Even though the planet is round, there are just too many spots where you can find yourself hanging on to the edge just like I was; and unless there's some space, some place, to take a breather for awhile, the edge of the world - frightening as it is
began cars follow past people privacy realize reason road
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.
american-novelist believe life supposed
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.
song stories eloquent
Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.
mother-daughter fathers-day dad
Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.
true-power giving consensus
Words themselves are innocuous; it is the consensus that gives them true power.
stars moon hands
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.
writing creative able
One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work.
drama eye passion
I don't want to write without a sense of drama, without passion, or without both eyes open to the world around me.
blessed body calm
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.
disrespect pity mates
Contempt mates well with pity.
jobs work doors
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.
dream stars heaven
a star dies in heaven every time you snatch away someone's dream.
beautiful hair black
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.