I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONNo hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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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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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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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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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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I don’t know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.
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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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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She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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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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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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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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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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