He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONThere is two things everybody got to find out for themselves. They got to find out about love and they got to find out about living.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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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 sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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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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It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
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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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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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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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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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There is two things everybody got to find out for themselves. They got to find out about love and they got to find out about living.
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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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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink 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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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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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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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.
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Two things everybody’s got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin’ fuh theyselves.
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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