Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONIf you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.
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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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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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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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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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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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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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