Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONShe didn’t read books so she didn’t know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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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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Love, I find, is like singing.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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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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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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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 was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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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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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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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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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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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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