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.
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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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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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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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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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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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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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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The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.
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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 stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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