So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONI will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches
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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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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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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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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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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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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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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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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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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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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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