Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONI don’t know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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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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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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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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She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
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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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And I can’t die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I’m a cracked plate.
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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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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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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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