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.
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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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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She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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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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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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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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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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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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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at the sun.’ We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
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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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