Zora Neale Hurston Short Quotes

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Fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.

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Want won't kill you half as quick as worry will.

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Gods always behave like the people who make them.

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Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.

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I did not just fall in love, I made a parachute jump.

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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.

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Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.

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I was a Southerner and had the map of Dixie on my tongue.

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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

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There is no agony like bearing an untold story within you.

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The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.

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Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil.

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It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.

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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.

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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.

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Lack of power and opportunity passes off too often for virtue.

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Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey's back.

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I know that nothing is destructible; things merely change forms.

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Folklore is the boiled-down juice, or pot-likker, of human living.

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So Janie waited a bloom time, and a green time and an orange time.

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Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!

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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.

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To a haughty belly, kindness is hard to swallow and harder to digest.

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I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.

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Belief in magic is older than writing. So nobody knows how it started.

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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.

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No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.

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

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

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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.

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