If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONMama 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.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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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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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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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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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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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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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
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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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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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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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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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