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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONThe sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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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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In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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Truth is a letter from courage!
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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 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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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
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Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at the sun.’ We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
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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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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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