Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONTruth is a letter from courage!
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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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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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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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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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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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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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
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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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