Gloria Naylor

"I realize at one point, that I was being followed, and then I began to see the surveillance that was going past the road on my house. And so, these cars began to surveil me. People began to follow me around, and it did, it was very disrupting to think that your privacy was being violated, and for no reason that I could come up with."

"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."

"Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes."

"Time's passage through the memory is like molten glass that can be opaque or crystallize 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."

"Old as she was she still missed her daddy sometimes."

"Now that she had actually seen and accepted reality, and reality brought such a healing calm."

"Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over."

"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."