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.
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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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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Now, women forget all those things they don’t want to remember, and remember everything they don’t want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.
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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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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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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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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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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man’s spice-box seasons his own food.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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