The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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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Truth is a letter from courage!
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.
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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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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
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Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
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I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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