Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONNow, 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.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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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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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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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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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside 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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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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There is two things everybody got to find out for themselves. They got to find out about love and they got to find out about living.
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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