It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
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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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don’t keer if you die at dusk. It’s so many people never seen de light at all.
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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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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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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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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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She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found 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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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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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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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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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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