Gloria Naylor Quotes

Everybody's got somewhere they call home.

Everything must belong somewhere. I know that now, that's why I'm staying here.

There's always something about home that's special.

I had many years where I just worked from film to film to film. And then all of a sudden I went: "Where did I put my bags down? Where's my little place I call home?"

I have learned and dismantled all the words in order to draw from them a single word: Home.

Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.

It's time to find someplace where I feel like it's home.

It is important for me to feel at home.

There is no house like the house of belonging.

Home is not just the place where you happen to be born. Its the place where you become yourself.

Home is where the heart is, we say, rubbing the flint of one abstraction against another.

London is my home... I know what's right and wrong here, and it's nice to have somewhere familiar to go back to.

I realized the other day that I've lived in New York longer than I've lived anywhere else. It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange; I never thought I would be.

I am not quite sure where home is right now. I do have places in London and Milan, and a house in Spain. I guess I would say home is where my mother is, and she lives in Spain.

It's nice to have some continuity you can come back to. I feel that in coming home, coming back to London.

As someone who has moved around a fair amount, I wondered what it would be like to stay rooted to one place, one community.

In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.

Despite the fact that I spend a lot of time in London, Switzerland and New York, Africa is the place I know and love best, and my heart will always lie here.

I believe in the old, because it shows us where we come from - where our souls have risen from. And I believe in the new, because it gives us the opportunity to create who we are becoming.

It's about, I did talk about my life in broad strokes and what home meant to me in order to really explore the subject of home and can you go back and what that means for people in that sense of community that we've lost.

It always just feels good going back home. It feels like nothing has changed. Seeing my room, the views. It, like, grounds you.

I did grow up in a small town. I grew up in a lot of different places. But I consider my home to be Cleveland.

When people ask me where I'm from, I say I'm from the Sudan. But when they ask what my hometown is, I say London. It's where I lived, and it's where my whole family lived.

It doesn't matter where it is in the world or who I'm making the movie with; that's the closest thing that I've got to a sense of placement.

It's just this: that there are places we all come from-deep-rooty-common places- that makes us who we are. And we disdain them or treat them lightly at our peril. We turn our backs on them at the risk of self-contempt. There is a sense in which we need to go home again-and can go home again. Not to recover home, no. But to sanctify memory.