Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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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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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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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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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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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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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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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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She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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