I 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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONNothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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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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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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Truth is a letter from courage!
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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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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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I don’t know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.
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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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It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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