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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONOne finds great comfort in good dinners.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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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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Now, women forget all those things they don’t want to remember, and remember everything they don’t want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.
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In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
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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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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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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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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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There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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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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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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