There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONThe present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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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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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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I don’t know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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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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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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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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Love, I find, is like singing.
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Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for 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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