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.
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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I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
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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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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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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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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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Truth is a letter from courage!
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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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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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
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