I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONIt 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.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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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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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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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 are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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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.
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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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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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