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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONThere is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man’s spice-box seasons his own food.
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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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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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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The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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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 had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at the sun.’ We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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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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Truth is a letter from courage!
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