It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONAn envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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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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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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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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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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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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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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Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
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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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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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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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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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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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