You heard me. You ain’t blind.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONI will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at the sun.’ We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
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Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Truth is a letter from courage!
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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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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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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I have been in Sorrow’s kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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