I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONThey seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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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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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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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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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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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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She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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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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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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