I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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 looked like the love thoughts of women.
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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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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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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She didn’t read books so she didn’t know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.
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Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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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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Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.
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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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Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
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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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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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