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Why do I write? The truth, the unvarnished truth, is that I haven't a clue.

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Gloria Naylor
Age: 66 †
Born: 1950
Born: January 25
Died: 2016
Died: September 28
Novelist
Writer
Manhattan borough
New York City
Haven
Write
Truth
Writing
Unvarnished
Clue
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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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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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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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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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You can't teach talent. You can't put in what God left out - but you can teach confidence.
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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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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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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.
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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.
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black isn't beautiful and it isn't ugly - black is! It's not kinky hair and it's not straight hair - it just is.
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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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Life is accepting what is and working from that.
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a star dies in heaven every time you snatch away someone's dream.
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Contempt mates well with pity.
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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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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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We get so caught up in what a man isn't. It's what he is that counts.
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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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The right woman is the one you can live with, not the one in your head.
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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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