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 HURSTONShe was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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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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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.
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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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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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She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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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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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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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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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for 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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