She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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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There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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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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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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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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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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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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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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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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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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I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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