Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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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Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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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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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
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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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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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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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Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.
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I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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