The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONYou heard me. You ain’t blind.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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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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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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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 wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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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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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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And I can’t die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I’m a cracked plate.
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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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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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Truth is a letter from courage!
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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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There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man’s spice-box seasons his own food.
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