There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONMystery is the essence of divinity
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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And I can’t die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I’m a cracked plate.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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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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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man’s spice-box seasons his own food.
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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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Truth is a letter from courage!
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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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I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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