I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONTwo things everybody’s got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin’ fuh theyselves.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
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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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The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches
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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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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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I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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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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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.
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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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