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 HURSTONTruth is a letter from courage!
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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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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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
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Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
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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 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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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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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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If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don’t keer if you die at dusk. It’s so many people never seen de light at all.
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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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