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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONShe had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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She didn’t read books so she didn’t know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.
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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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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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Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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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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Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches
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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 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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It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
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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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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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