I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONOne finds great comfort in good dinners.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.
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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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She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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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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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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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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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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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for 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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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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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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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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