Love, I find, is like singing.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONI will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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Truth is a letter from courage!
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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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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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.
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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 are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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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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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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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The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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