I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONNo, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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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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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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Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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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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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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In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
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I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.
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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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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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