No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONA thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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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Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it’s some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don’t know nothin’ but what we see.
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I have been in Sorrow’s kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands.
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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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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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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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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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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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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