One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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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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I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
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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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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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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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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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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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There is two things everybody got to find out for themselves. They got to find out about love and they got to find out about living.
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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