Zora Neale Hurston - Man Quotes

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Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men.

Zora Neale Hurston
When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.

Zora Neale Hurston
Everybody has some special road of thought along which they travel when they are alone to themselves. And his road of thought is what makes every man what he is.

Zora Neale Hurston
The sun, the hero of every day, the impersonal old man that beams as brightly on death as on birth, came up every morning.

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Taint no law on earth that can make a man be decent if it ain't in 'im.

Zora Neale Hurston
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.

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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural. There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man's spice-box seasons his own food.

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Silence is all the genius a fool has and it is one of the things a smart man knows how to use when he needs it.

Zora Neale Hurston
When God had made The Man, he made him out of stuff that sung all the time and glittered all over. Some angels got jealous and chopped him into millions of pieces, but still he glittered and hummed. So they beat him down to nothing but sparks but each little spark had a shine and a song. So they covered each one over with mud. And the lonesomeness in the sparks make them hunt for one another.

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Once you wake up thought in a man, you can never put it to sleep again.

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Ah's satisfied wid you jes' lak you is, baby. God took pattern after a pine tree and built you noble. Youse a pritty man, and if Ah knowed any way to make you mo' pritty still Ah'd take and do it.

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But any man who walks in the way of power and property is bound to meet hate.

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I am the kind of a woman that likes to move on mentally from point to point, and I like for my man to be there way ahead of me. Then if he is strong and honest, it goes on from there. Good looks are not essential, just extra added attraction.

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Perhaps love is a compelling necessity imposed on man by God that has something to do with suffering

Zora Neale Hurston
The inference is, that God has restated the superiority of the West. God always does like that when a thousand white people surround one dark one. Dark people are always "bad" when they do not admit the Divine Plan like that. A certain Javanese man who sticks up for Indonesian Independence is very lowdown by the papers, and suspected of being a Japanese puppet.

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