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Quotes from Interview with PBS — Gloria Naylor

1950–2016 United States

← All quotes by Gloria Naylor

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

Interview with PBS (2000)

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

Interview with PBS (2000)

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).

Interview with PBS (2000)

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.

Interview with PBS (2000)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Gloria Naylor (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.