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 HURSTONIt was the meanest moment of eternity.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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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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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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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.
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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 had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
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There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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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.
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Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.
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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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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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