Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONThere 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.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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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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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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If you are 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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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at the sun.’ We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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