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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONOh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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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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Truth is a letter from courage!
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
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There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.
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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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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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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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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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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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