Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONShe was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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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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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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In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
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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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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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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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Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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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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There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man’s spice-box seasons his own food.
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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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