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.
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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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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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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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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I 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.
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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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Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
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She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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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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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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