I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONTruth is a letter from courage!
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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I have been in Sorrow’s kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands.
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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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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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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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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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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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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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I don’t know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.
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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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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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