I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONResearch is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
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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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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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Now, women forget all those things they don’t want to remember, and remember everything they don’t want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.
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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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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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There 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.
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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 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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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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