The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONHe looked like the love thoughts of women.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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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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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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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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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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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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So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.
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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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There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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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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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it’s some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don’t know nothin’ but what we see.
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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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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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.
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Truth is a letter from courage!
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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