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

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

Gloria Naylor

#Song Quotes #Stories Quotes #Eloquent Quotes

“Whatever happens in the country, whatever warfare harasses our land, we will never relinquish our hold on Western learning. As long as this school of ours stands, Japan remains a civilized nation of the world.”

Source : Yukichi Fukuzawa, Eiichi Kiyooka (1966). “The Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa”, p.211, Columbia University Press
“For men's religion to God is between God and themselves. The king shall not answer for it. Neither may the king be judge between God and man. Let them be heretics, Turks, Jews, or whatsoever, it appertains not to the earthly power to punish them in the least measure. This is made evident to our lord the king by the scriptures.”

Source : Thomas Helwys, Richard Groves (1998). “A Short Declaration of the Mystery of Iniquity (1611/1612)”, p.53, Mercer University Press
“I am entirely on the side of mystery. I mean, any attempt to explain away the mystery is ridiculous. I believe in the profound and unfathomable mystery of life which has a sort of divine quality about it.”
“The people want government that works for them at every level. They want good government that begins at their doorstep in the barangay, and does not end before the closed door of a bureaucrat in Metro Manila.”

Source : State of the Nation Address, July 25, 2005.
“I never thought in a million years that I would do a weekly series.”
“For within livin structures defined by profit, by linear power, by institutional dehumanization, our feelings were not meant to survive. Kept around as unavoidable adjuncts or pleasant pastimes, our feelings were expected to kneel to thought as women were expected to kneel to men. But women have survived. As poets.”
“There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.”
“In America, we believe that our happiness depends on getting breaks, even though being American is already the biggest break we will ever get.”

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