They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONHoney, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it’s some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don’t know nothin’ but what we see.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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And I can’t die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I’m a cracked plate.
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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