No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONMystery is the essence of divinity
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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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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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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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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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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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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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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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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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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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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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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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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