Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONShe wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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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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Two things everybody’s got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin’ fuh theyselves.
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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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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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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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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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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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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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Love is like the sea. It’s a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
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Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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