An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONA thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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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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Truth is a letter from courage!
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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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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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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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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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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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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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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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Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
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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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