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 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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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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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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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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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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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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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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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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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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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.
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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