The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONYou heard me. You ain’t blind.
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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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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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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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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It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches
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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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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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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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