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Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey's back.
Zora Neale Hurston
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Zora Neale Hurston
Age: 69 †
Born: 1891
Born: January 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 28
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More quotes by Zora Neale Hurston
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.
Zora Neale Hurston
I do not share the gloomy thought that Negroes in America are doomed to be stomped out bodaciously, nor even shackled to the bottom of things. Of course some of them will be tromped out, and some will always be at the bottom, keeping company with other bottom-folks.
Zora Neale Hurston
Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.
Zora Neale Hurston
The game of keeping what one has is never so exciting as the game of getting.
Zora Neale Hurston
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
Zora Neale Hurston
Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
Zora Neale Hurston
The whole matter revolves around the self-respect of my people. How much satisfaction can I get from a court order for somebody toassociate with me who does not wish me near them?
Zora Neale Hurston
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.
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Work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find.
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It must be recess in (heaven) if St. Peter is lettin his angels out.
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All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk.
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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.
Zora Neale Hurston
Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.
Zora Neale Hurston
So Janie waited a bloom time, and a green time and an orange time.
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It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.
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A great state is a well-blended mash of something of all the people and all of none of the people. The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.
Zora Neale Hurston
A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
Zora Neale Hurston
Perhaps love is a compelling necessity imposed on man by God that has something to do with suffering
Zora Neale Hurston
Like the dead-seeming, cold rocks, I have memories within that came out of the material that went to make me. Time and place have had their say.
Zora Neale Hurston
I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all.
Zora Neale Hurston
