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 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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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.
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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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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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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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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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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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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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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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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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