Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONAn envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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Truth is a letter from courage!
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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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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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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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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Two things everybody’s got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin’ fuh theyselves.
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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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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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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.
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