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Zora Neale Hurston Inspirational Quotes (197)

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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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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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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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I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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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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it seems that tears and laughter, love and hate, make up the sum of life!
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you can't beat me and my prayers!
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But as de old folk always say, Ah'm born but Ah ain't dead. No tellin' whut Ah'm liable tuh do yet.
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Look lak she been livin' through uh hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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Why fear? The stuff of my being is matter, ever changing, ever moving, but never lost so what need of denominations and creeds to deny myself the comfort of all my fellow men? The wide belt of the universe has no need for finger-rings. I am one with the infinite and need no other assurance.
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I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background........Beside the waters of the Hudson I feel my race. Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept, but through it all, I remain myself. When covered by the waters, I am and the ebb but reveals me again. How It Feels to Be Colored Me
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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The morning air was like a new dress. That made her feel the apron tied around her waist. She untied it and flung it on a low bush beside the road and walked on, picking flowers and making a bouquet… From now on until death she was going to have flower dust and springtime sprinkled over everything.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her. Then she went inside there to see what it was. It was her image of Jody tumbled down and shattered. But looking at it she saw that it never was the flesh and blood figure of her dreams. Just something she had grabbed up to drape her dreams over.
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Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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When the people sat around on the porch and passed around the pictures of their thoughts for the others to look at and see, it was nice. The fact that the thought pictures were always crayon enlargements of life made it even nicer to listen to.
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Every morning the world flung itself over and exposed the town to the sun.
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It is hard to apply oneself to study when there is no money to pay for food and lodging. I almost never explain these things when folks are asking me why I don't do this or that.
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No man may make another free.
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