No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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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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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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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 are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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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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It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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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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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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Now, women forget all those things they don’t want to remember, and remember everything they don’t want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.
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