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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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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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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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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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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And I can’t die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I’m a cracked plate.
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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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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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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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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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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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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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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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