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If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
Zora Neale HurstonZora Neale Hurston She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
Zora Neale HurstonZora Neale Hurston Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
Zora Neale HurstonZora Neale Hurston Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.
Zora Neale HurstonZora Neale Hurston It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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Zora Neale HurstonZora Neale Hurston 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.
Zora Neale HurstonZora Neale Hurston Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
Zora Neale HurstonZora Neale Hurston No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
Zora Neale HurstonZora Neale Hurston Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
Zora Neale HurstonZora Neale Hurston Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
Zora Neale HurstonZora Neale Hurston 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.
Zora Neale HurstonZora Neale Hurston So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
Zora Neale HurstonZora Neale Hurston 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.
Zora Neale HurstonZora Neale Hurston A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
Zora Neale HurstonZora Neale Hurston Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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