There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man’s spice-box seasons his own food.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONThere are years that ask questions and years that answer.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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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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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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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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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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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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In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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