If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONI will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don’t keer if you die at dusk. It’s so many people never seen de light at all.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.
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Truth is a letter from courage!
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man’s spice-box seasons his own food.
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There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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Love is like the sea. It’s a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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Honey, 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.
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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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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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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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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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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She didn’t read books so she didn’t know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.
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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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