Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
ZORA NEALE HURSTONMy head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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.
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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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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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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Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
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I have been in Sorrow’s kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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