There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONIf you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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I have been in Sorrow’s kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands.
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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 knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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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.
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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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She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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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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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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Truth is a letter from courage!
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There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man’s spice-box seasons his own food.
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