The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONTruth is a letter from courage!
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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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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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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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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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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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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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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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at the sun.’ We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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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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