Quotes from Gloria Naylor

Lord keep her safe since you can't keep her sane.

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.

Words themselves are innocuous; it is the consensus that gives them true power.

You can't teach talent. You can't put in what God left out - but you can teach confidence.

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.

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.

Life is accepting what is and working from that.

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

The last time you're doing something - knowing you're doing it for the last - makes it even more alive than the first.

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.

Power knows power.

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.

She breathed deeply of the freedom she found in Mattie's presence. Here she had no choice but to be herself. The carefully erected decoys she was constantly shuffling and changing to fit the situation were of no use here. Etta and Mattie went way back, a singular term that claimed co-knowledge of all the important events in their lives and almost all of the unimportant ones. And by rights of this possession, it tolerated no secrets.

The beginnings are gone, Laurel. But we can start with today and what you got around you.

but it's one of the reflections of our times. Young minds today are dulled by television and other visual sensations. When reading was one of the few pleasures available, we could recite whole passages to eachother.

Bloody noses had made them friends, but giving sound to the bruised places in their hearts made them brothers.

She sincerely liked Mattie because unlike the others, Mattie never found the time to do jury duty on other people's lives.

there are many subtle ways with which you can make one strong point.

A rumor needs no true parent. It only needs a willing carrier

Just like that chicken coop, everything got four sides: his side, her side, an outside, and an inside. All of it is the truth.

Then she turned and firmly folded her evening like gold and lavender gauze deep within the creases of her dreams, and let her clothes drop to the floor

The unpainted walls of the long rectangular room were soaked with the smell of greasy chicken and warm, headless beer. The brown and pink faces floated above the trails of used cigarette smoke like bodiless carnival balloons.

They looked only at the products and thought they saw God—they should have looked at the process.

Basil stopped crying instantly in order to enjoy Ciel's punishment.