Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONThere is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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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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Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.
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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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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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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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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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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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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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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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There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.
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Two things everybody’s got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin’ fuh theyselves.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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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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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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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.
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