There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONYou heard me. You ain’t blind.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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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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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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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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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She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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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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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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