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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONMy 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.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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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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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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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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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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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Truth is a letter from courage!
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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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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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In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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