Gayl Jones Quotes

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I learned to write by listening to people talk. I still feel that the best of my writing comes from having heard rather than having read.

Gayl Jones
My great-grandmama told my grandmama the part she lived through that my grandmama didn't live through and my grandmama told my mama what they both lived through and my mama told me what they all lived through and we were suppose to pass it down like that from generation to generation so we'd never forget.

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I am Ursa Corregidora. I have tears for eyes. I was made to touch my past at an early age.

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Seem like most people turn they own flaws of character into virtues. They see other people's flaws, but they own flaws, they turn into virtues.

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When you tell a story you automatically talk about traditions, but they're never separate from the people, the human implications.... You're talking about all your connections as a human being.

Gayl Jones
Some people think before they talk. Some people talk before they think. Some people make you say things you don't want to say. I don't know how they do it. I wish I knew someone who could make you say what you do want to say. I suppose that is only yourself.

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When I'm telling you something don't you ever ask if I'm lying. Because they didn't want to leave no evidence of what they done—so it couldn't be held against them And I'm leaving evidence. And you got to leave evidence too. And your children got to leave evidence. And when it come time to hold up the evidence, we got to have evidence to hold up.

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