You heard me. You ain’t blind.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONMystery is the essence of divinity
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
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Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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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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It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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Truth is a letter from courage!
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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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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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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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She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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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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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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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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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.
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