I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONLove makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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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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There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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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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Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.
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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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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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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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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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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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