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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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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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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She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
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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 don’t know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.
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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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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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And 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.
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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