She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONThere are years that ask questions and years that answer.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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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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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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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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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.
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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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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There is two things everybody got to find out for themselves. They got to find out about love and they got to find out about living.
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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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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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