People can be slave ships in shoes.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONIf you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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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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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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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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Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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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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