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

Gloria Naylor

#Beautiful Quotes #Hair Quotes #Black Quotes

“You see so many artists who are so talented end up living sad, empty lives. This industry takes so much out of you that without the accountability and leaving God in the center, you can be left so empty and void.”
“On parochial school I was told I had an overabundance of original sin.”
“Forget the credit, they (male actors) take all the money as well. We don't get paid even one-third of what male actors get. It's not so much about the money, but it's about (being a) woman.”
“It's hard to put my music in a specific genre, but if you had to, "instrumental cyber metal" would be an accurate one.”
“If we can teach people about wildlife, they will be touched. Share my wildlife with me. Because humans want to save things that they love.”
“It was frustrating when people loved you and took an interest in you and sometimes worried about you and personally cared what you did with yourself. Lena wished that love were something you could flip on and off. You could turn it on when you felt good bout yourself and worthy of it and generous enough to return it. You could clip it off when you needed to hide or self-destruct and had nothing at all to give." (Lena, 194)”
“I am never happier in the Lord than when I am in a bedroom with a sick person.”
“The right word fitly spoken is a precious rarity.”

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