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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONBitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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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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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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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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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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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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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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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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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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