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.
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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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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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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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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Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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I have been in Sorrow’s kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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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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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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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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