If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONI love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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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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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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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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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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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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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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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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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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There is two things everybody got to find out for themselves. They got to find out about love and they got to find out about living.
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