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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There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man’s spice-box seasons his own food.
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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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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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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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Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
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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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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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Two things everybody’s got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin’ fuh theyselves.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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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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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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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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Love 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.
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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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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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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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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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There is two things everybody got to find out for themselves. They got to find out about love and they got to find out about living.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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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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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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