She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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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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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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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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Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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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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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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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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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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