People can be slave ships in shoes.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONSome people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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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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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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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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She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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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.
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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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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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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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