My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONAnd I can’t die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I’m a cracked plate.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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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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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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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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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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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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Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Truth is a letter from courage!
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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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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