You heard me. You ain’t blind.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONIt was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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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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Truth is a letter from courage!
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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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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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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Love is like the sea. It’s a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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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.
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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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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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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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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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