Top 25 Quotes by Gloria Naylor of 36 - Page 2

Contempt mates well with pity.

Disrespect, Pity, Mates

Gloria Naylor (2017). “Linden Hills: A Novel”, p.26, Open Road Media

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.

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Home, Knowing, Long

Gloria Naylor (2017). “Mama Day: A Novel”, p.37, Open Road Media

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

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Powerful, Reality, Myth

Time is a funny thing. I was always puzzled with the way a single day could stretch itself out to the point of eternity in your mind, all while years melted down into the fraction of a second.

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Years, Funny Things, Mind

Gloria Naylor (2017). “Mama Day: A Novel”, p.117, Open Road Media

Self-consciousness is really a form of egotism.

Gloria Naylor

Self, Consciousness, Form

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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Law, People, Community

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.

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Jobs, Work, Doors

Gloria Naylor (2017). “Mama Day: A Novel”, p.12, Open Road Media

Old as he was, he still missed his daddy sometimes.

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Father, Son, Daddy

Time's passage through the memory is like molten glass that can be opaque or crystalize at any given moment at will: a thousand days are melted into one conversation, one glance, one hurt, and one hurt can be shattered and sprinkled over a thousand days. It is silent and elusive, refusing to be damned and dripped out day by day; it swirls through the mind while an entire lifetime can ride like foam on the deceptive, transparent waves and get sprayed onto the conciousness at ragged, unexpected intervals.

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Hurt, Memories, Glasses

Gloria Naylor (2005). “The Women of Brewster Place”, p.35, Penguin

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.

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New York, Believe, Cities

FaceBook post by Gloria Naylor from Mar 15, 2017