She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONTruth is a letter from courage!
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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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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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.
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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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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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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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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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And I can’t die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I’m a cracked plate.
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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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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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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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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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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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