Citas de Gloria Naylor

• Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.

  Gloria Naylor

  Song, Healing, Stories

  Gloria Naylor, Maxine Lavon Montgomery (2004). “Conversations with Gloria Naylor”, p.11, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• 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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  Life, Believe, Grieving

  Gloria Naylor (2017). “Bailey's Cafe: A Novel”, p.147, Open Road Media

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• Una voz alta no siempre es airada; una voz suave no siempre hay que desestimarla; y un silencio bien colocado puede ser la última palabra indiscutible.

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  Loud Voices, Silence, Lasts

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• 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.

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  Writing, Artist, America

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• A veces, ser amigo significa dominar el arte del momento oportuno. Hay un momento para el silencio. Un momento para dejar ir... Y un momento para prepararse para recoger los pedazos cuando todo haya terminado.

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  Friendship, Letting Go, Art

  Gloria Naylor (2005). “The Women of Brewster Place”, p.56, Penguin

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• Por muy mayor que fuera, a veces seguía echando de menos a su padre.

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  Mother Daughter, Fathers Day, Dad

  Gloria Naylor (2017). “Mama Day: A Novel”, p.185, Open Road Media

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• The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul.

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  Love, Laughter, Missing

  Gloria Naylor (2017). “Linden Hills: A Novel”, p.25, Open Road Media

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

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  Talent, Teach, Left

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

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  Dream, Stars, Heaven

  Gloria Naylor (2017). “Bailey's Cafe: A Novel”, p.45, Open Road Media

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• We get so caught up in what a man isn't. It's what he is that counts.

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  Men, Caught, Caught Up

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• La vida es aceptar lo que es y trabajar a partir de ello.

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  Life, Inspire, Accepting What Is

  Gloria Naylor (2005). “The Women of Brewster Place”, p.85, Penguin

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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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  Stars, Moon, Hands

  Gloria Naylor (2017). “Mama Day: A Novel”, p.6, Open Road Media

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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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  Writing, Creative, Firsts

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• The right woman is the one you can live with, not the one in your head.

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• I don't want to write without a sense of drama, without passion, or without both eyes open to the world around me.

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  Drama, Passion, Writing

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• 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.

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  Technology, Two, World

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

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  True Power, Giving, Consensus

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

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  Knowing, Alive, Lasts

  Gloria Naylor (2017). “Mama Day: A Novel”, p.224, Open Road Media

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• 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.

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  Blessed, Body, Spirit

  Gloria Naylor, Maxine Lavon Montgomery (2004). “Conversations with Gloria Naylor”, p.25, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Mimado. Sólo se trata de eso: no puedes vivir sin esto, no puedes vivir sin aquello. Puedes vivir sin nada con lo que no hayas nacido, y puedes sobrevivir incluso con la mitad de eso.

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  Half, Spoiled, Born

  Gloria Naylor (2017). “Mama Day: A Novel”, p.184, Open Road Media

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• 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.

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  Pensar, Dar, Consejos

  Gloria Naylor (1990). “Selected from the Women of Brewster Place”, Signal Hill Publications

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• el negro no es bonito ni feo: ¡el negro lo es! No es un pelo rizado ni un pelo liso, simplemente lo es.

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  Beautiful, Hair, Black

  Gloria Naylor (2005). “The Women of Brewster Place”, p.66, Penguin

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• 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.

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  Stopping, World, Alphabet

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• They all trying to say something with music that you can't say with plain talk. There ain't really no words for love or pain. And the way I see it, only fools go around trying to talk their love or talk their pain. So the smart people make music and you can kinda hear about it without them saying anything.

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  Pain, Smart, People

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• El desprecio combina bien con la compasión.

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  Disrespect, Pity, Mates

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

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