You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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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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Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it’s some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don’t know nothin’ but what we see.
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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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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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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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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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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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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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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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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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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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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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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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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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There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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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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