A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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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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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So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.
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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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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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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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She didn’t read books so she didn’t know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.
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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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Love is like the sea. It’s a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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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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Truth is a letter from courage!
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
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