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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONOne finds great comfort in good dinners.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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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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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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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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I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
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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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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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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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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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