It was not death she feared. It was 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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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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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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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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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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So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.
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There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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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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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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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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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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I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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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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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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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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Love, I find, is like singing.
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Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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