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Zora Neale Hurston Inspirational Quotes (197)

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We must learn to be honest with ourselves, and know our shortcomings. We will acquire cohesion but we will pay dearly for being a slow pupil.
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I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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Please God, please suh, don't let him love nobody else but me. Maybe Ah'm is uh fool, Lawd, lak dey say, but Lawd, Ah been so lonesome, and Ah been waitin', Jesus. Ah done waited uh long time.
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Tain't no use in you cryin' . . . But folks is meant to cry 'bout somethin' or other. Better leave things de way dey is. Youse young yet. No tellin' whut mout happen befo' you die.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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I regret all of my books.
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Once you wake up thought in a man, you can never put it to sleep again.
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When Janie looked out of her door she saw the drifting mists gathered in the west -- that cloud field of the sky -- to arm themselves with thunders and march forth against the world. Louder and higher and lower and wider the sound and motion spread, mounting, sinking, darking.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me.
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It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.
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Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil.
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So Janie waited a bloom time, and a green time and an orange time.
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She didn't read books so she didn't know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.
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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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There's two things everybody got to find out for themselves: they got to find out about love, and they got to find out about living. Now, love is like the sea. It's a moving thing. And it's different on every shore. And living... well... There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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I belong to no race nor time. I am the eternal feminine with its string of beads.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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Perhaps I am just a coward who loves to laugh at life better than I do cry with it. But when I do get to crying, boy, I can roll a mean tear.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. It is a seeking that he who wishes may know the cosmic secrets of the world and they that dwell therein.
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Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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