People can be slave ships in shoes.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONYou heard me. You ain’t blind.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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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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I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.
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I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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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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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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