Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.
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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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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I have been in Sorrow’s kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
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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.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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 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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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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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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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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