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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONAnytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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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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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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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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The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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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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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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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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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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