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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONI 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.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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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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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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I don’t know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.
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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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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Truth is a letter from courage!
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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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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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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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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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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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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