Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONThere 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.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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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.
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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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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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She didn’t read books so she didn’t know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.
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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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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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Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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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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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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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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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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