If 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.
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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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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There is two things everybody got to find out for themselves. They got to find out about love and they got to find out about living.
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She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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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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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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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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I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
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Truth is a letter from courage!
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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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Now, women forget all those things they don’t want to remember, and remember everything they don’t want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.
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