If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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There is two things everybody got to find out for themselves. They got to find out about love and they got to find out about living.
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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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Sometimes, 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.
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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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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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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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