Gloria Naylor Quotes

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

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Life is accepting what is and working from that.

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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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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.

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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.

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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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