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 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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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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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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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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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 wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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Truth is a letter from courage!
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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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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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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