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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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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Truth is a letter from courage!
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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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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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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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She didn’t read books so she didn’t know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.
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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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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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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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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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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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Two things everybody’s got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin’ fuh theyselves.
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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