They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONHe was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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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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She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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Love is like the sea. It’s a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
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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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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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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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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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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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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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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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