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.
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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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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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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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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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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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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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.
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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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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Truth is a letter from courage!
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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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So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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