There is two things everybody got to find out for themselves. They got to find out about love and they got to find out about living.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONIf you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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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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I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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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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I don’t know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.
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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 stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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