He looked like the love thoughts of women.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONBitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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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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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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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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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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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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Love, I find, is like singing.
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Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it’s some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don’t know nothin’ but what we see.
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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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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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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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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