She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONNight came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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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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Now, women forget all those things they don’t want to remember, and remember everything they don’t want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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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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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Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.
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