A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONLove is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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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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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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Truth is a letter from courage!
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
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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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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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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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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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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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