Quotes by Gloria Naylor

“Old as she was she still missed her daddy sometimes.”

“When I think of the American dream, I think of exclusivity, to be quite honest with you. I think that dream, just like the Foundation of America, was only held out to a few and it was only met for ...”

“If you can just first maintain your own humanity, reify your own personal worth. You then flow into the system as an entity.”

“When I think of the American dream, that’s what I think of something that is manufactured, something that is ethereal, something that’s not quite there yet.”

“Perhaps of the books that we were reading, the one that really stands out the most about the American dream is The Street (by Ann Petry).”

“They are acceptable. The Colin Powells of America. It was such a phenomenon to me, that Colin Powell was so deeply loved by the American media and actually tabbed as becoming president. And when yo...”

“That’s what the Depression kind of showed, that hard work guaranteed you nothing.”

“There are some young Black women, however, that I particularly want to talk about, younger than I in any case, young Black women who are writing, who are inspirational to me. For example, a group o...”

“To me, the great writers who come from ethnic minorities writing in English come from America. I think the deep, the real deep thinkers now writing in the English language are the black women, such...”

“There is no way you can say that realism is the only literature going. I mean, most of our best novelists are not even writing realism a writers like Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, Leslie Silko. The...”

“I think there's something very special about women writers, black women writers in America and those that I know of in any real sense in Africa-Bessie Head, for example, in Africa or Gloria Naylor ...”