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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONYou heard me. You ain’t blind.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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Truth is a letter from courage!
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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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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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get 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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So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.
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The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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Two things everybody’s got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin’ fuh theyselves.
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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