If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONNow, 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.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
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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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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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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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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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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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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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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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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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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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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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