She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONI love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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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 had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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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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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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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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