The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONMystery is the essence of divinity
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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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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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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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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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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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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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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He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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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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