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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONMy 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.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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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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Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
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I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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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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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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I don’t know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.
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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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