Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONHoney, 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.
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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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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She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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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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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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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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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 wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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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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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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Love is like the sea. It’s a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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