There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONMy head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.
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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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And I can’t die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I’m a cracked plate.
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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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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
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It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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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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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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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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Truth is a letter from courage!
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