Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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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It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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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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I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
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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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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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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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There is two things everybody got to find out for themselves. They got to find out about love and they got to find out about living.
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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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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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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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