I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONAn envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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I have been in Sorrow’s kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands.
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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 had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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Truth is a letter from courage!
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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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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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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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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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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Love, I find, is like singing.
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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.
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