Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONA thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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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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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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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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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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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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Love, I find, is like singing.
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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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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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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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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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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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