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 HURSTONIt was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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Truth is a letter from courage!
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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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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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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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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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I don’t know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.
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Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
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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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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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