Gloria Naylor
Gloria Naylor
Gloria Nayloris an American novelist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 January 1950
CountryUnited States of America
loud-voices silence lasts
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.
half spoiled born
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.
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.
cousin drama book
Writers are voracious readers. 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. Everything was fair game, from Louisa May Alcott to my older cousin's True Romance Magazines, from Lewis Carroll to the backs of cereal boxes. All of this fed me, but it took certain books to make me grow. I don't want to work without a sense of drama, without passion, or without both eyes open to the world around me.
technology two world
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.
thinking giving advice
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.
talent teach left
You can't teach talent. You can't put in what God left out - but you can teach confidence.
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.
writing creative able
One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work.
dream stars heaven
a star dies in heaven every time you snatch away someone's dream.
writing artist america
There is a problem in America. An Irish or Polish American can write a story and it's an American story. When a Black American writes a story, it's called a Black story. I take exception to that. Every artist has articulated to his own experience. The problem is that some people do not see Blacks as Americans.
true-power giving consensus
Words themselves are innocuous; it is the consensus that gives them true power.
mother-daughter fathers-day dad
Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.
life believe grieving
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.