It was the meanest moment of eternity.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONIf 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.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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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.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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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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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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