You heard me. You ain’t blind.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONI will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man’s spice-box seasons his own food.
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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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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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I have been in Sorrow’s kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands.
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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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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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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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There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.
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It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
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The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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