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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONI will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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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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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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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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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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