Six months of looking for a job had made me an expert at picking out the people who, like me, were hurrying up to wait - in somebody's outer anything for a chance to make it through their inner doors to prove that you could type two words a minute, or not drool on your blouse while answering difficult questions about your middle initial and date of birth.
Gloria NaylorThat's one of the privileges of old age - you can give plenty of advice 'cause most folks think that's all you got left anyway.
Gloria NaylorThe 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.
Gloria Naylorblack isn't beautiful and it isn't ugly - black is! It's not kinky hair and it's not straight hair - it just is.
Gloria NaylorIt's as if I've arrived in a place where it's all spirit and no body -- an overwhelming sense of calm . . . I actually began to feel blessed.
Gloria Naylor