Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONI made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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Truth is a letter from courage!
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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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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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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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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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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 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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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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