Zora Neale Hurston quotes - page 3

Mystery is the essence of divinity. (Zora Neale Hurston)
I love myself when I am laughing... and then again when I am looking mean and impressive. View quote
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships. View quote
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You heard me. You ain't blind. View quote
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding. View quote
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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. View quote
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen. View quote
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt. View quote
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She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie's first dream was dead, so she became a woman. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (Zora Neale Hurston)
anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something! View quote
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The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky. View quote
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Then you must tell 'em dat love ain't somethin' lak uh grindstone dat's de same thing everywhere and do de same thing tuh everything it touch. 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. View quote
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The years took all the fight out of Janie's face. For a while she thought it was gone from her soul. View quote
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. View quote
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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. View quote
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No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you. View quote
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Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear. View quote
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell. View quote
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow. (Zora Neale Hurston)
It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams. View quote
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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser. View quote
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But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem. View quote
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It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual. View quote
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