I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
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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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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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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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at the sun.’ We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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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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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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