My 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.
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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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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Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches
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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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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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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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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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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 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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If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don’t keer if you die at dusk. It’s so many people never seen de light at all.
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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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Truth is a letter from courage!
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