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 HURSTONMystery is the essence of divinity
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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And I can’t die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I’m a cracked plate.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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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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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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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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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
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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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