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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONNo hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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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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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.
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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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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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She didn’t read books so she didn’t know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.
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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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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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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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