She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONYou heard me. You ain’t blind.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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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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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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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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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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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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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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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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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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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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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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She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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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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