... But that takes a lot of work and young folks ain't about working hard no more. When getting at the truth starts to hurt, it's easier to turn away.

Gloria Naylor, Mama Day (1988)

A good woman is worth two men any day when she puts her mind to it.

Gloria Naylor, Mama Day (1988)

No, I saw the bible as a literary masterpiece, but literature all the same; and Christianity owed its rules and regulations to politics more than anything else, while filling pews with uncertainty and fear. Substitute the Torah, the Koran, the Bhagavad-Gita, a synagogue, a mosque, a temple, for all the above and the formula worked perfectly. All of the bloodletting and chaos, the devotion and beauty, martyrdom, and even charity could be reduced to a simple formula of politics and fear.

Gloria Naylor, Mama Day (1988)

A word to the wise is sufficient, but a whole dictionary wouldn't help some fools.

Gloria Naylor, Mama Day (1988)

Home. You can move away from it, but you never leave it. Not as long as it holds something to be missed.

Gloria Naylor, Mama Day (1988)