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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONSometimes, 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.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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Truth is a letter from courage!
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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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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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She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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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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