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I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
Zora Neale HurstonZora Neale Hurston 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.
Zora Neale HurstonZora Neale Hurston The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
Zora Neale HurstonZora Neale Hurston 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 HurstonZora Neale Hurston She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
Zora Neale HurstonZora Neale Hurston When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
Zora Neale HurstonZora Neale Hurston There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
Zora Neale HurstonZora Neale Hurston If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
Zora Neale HurstonZora Neale Hurston She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
Zora Neale HurstonZora Neale Hurston Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
Zora Neale HurstonZora Neale Hurston Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.
Zora Neale HurstonZora Neale Hurston It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
Zora Neale HurstonZora Neale Hurston Mystery is the essence of divinity
Zora Neale HurstonZora Neale Hurston 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.
Zora Neale HurstonZora Neale Hurston Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
Zora Neale HurstonZora Neale Hurston No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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