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• People can be slave-ships in shoes.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Shoes, Slave Ships, People

  Zora Neale Hurston (1969). “Dust tracks on a road”

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• I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.

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  Feelings, Mind, Matter

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.74, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Silence is all the genius a fool has.

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  Silence, Genius, Fool

  Zora Neale Hurston (1995). “Zora Neale Hurston: Novels and Stories: Jonah's Gourd Vine / Their Eyes Were Watching God / Moses, Man of the Mountain / Seraph on the Suwanee / Selected Stories”

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• An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.

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  Heart, Ears, Envious

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.8, University of Illinois Press

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• All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom. Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood.

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  Fear, Real, Flower

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.174, University of Illinois Press

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• 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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  Eye, Men, Looks

  Zora Neale Hurston (1969). “Dust tracks on a road”

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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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  Justice, Diversity, Pay

  Zora Neale Hurston (2002). “Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters”, Doubleday Books

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• That is the way with people ... If they do you wrong, they invent a bad name for you, a good name for their acts and then destroy you in the name of virtue.

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  Names, People, Prejudice

  Zora Neale Hurston (1995). “Zora Neale Hurston: Novels and Stories: Jonah's Gourd Vine / Their Eyes Were Watching God / Moses, Man of the Mountain / Seraph on the Suwanee / Selected Stories”

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• I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.

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  Hands, Rainbow, Kitchen

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

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  Happiness, Inspiring, Fear

  Zora Neale Hurston (2010). “Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography”, p.38, Harper Collins

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• It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.

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  Fighting, Games, Loser

  Zora Neale Hurston (1995). “Zora Neale Hurston: Novels and Stories: Jonah's Gourd Vine / Their Eyes Were Watching God / Moses, Man of the Mountain / Seraph on the Suwanee / Selected Stories”

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• Mystery is the essence of divinity

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Essence, Divinity, Mystery

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.47, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.

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  Mean, Laughing, I Love Myself

  Zora Neale Hurston (2009). “Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Novel”, p.27, Harper Collins

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• Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil.

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  Inspiring, Everyday, Veils

  Zora Neale Hurston (1995). “Zora Neale Hurston: Novels and Stories: Jonah's Gourd Vine / Their Eyes Were Watching God / Moses, Man of the Mountain / Seraph on the Suwanee / Selected Stories”

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

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  Sweat, Praying, Cry

  Zora Neale Hurston, Cheryl A. Wall (1997). “Sweat”, p.149, Rutgers University Press

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• If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would get written at all. It might be better to ask yourself 'Why?”'afterwards than before There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.

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  Wise, Book, Agony

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.71, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• It seems to me to be true that heavens are placed in the sky because it is the unreachable. The unreachable and therefore the unknowable always seems divine--hence, religion. People need religion because the great masses fear life and its consequences. Its responsibilities weigh heavy. Feeling a weakness in the face of great forces, men seek an alliance with omnipotence to bolster up their feeling of weakness, even though the omnipotence they rely upon is a creature of their own minds. It gives them a feeling of security.

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  Responsibility, Men, Omnipotence

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• truth is a letter from courage!

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  Letters, Truth Is

  Zora Neale Hurston (2010). “Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography”, p.10, Harper Collins

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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 same 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. Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.

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  Life, Dream, Women

  Their Eyes Were Watching God ch. 1 (1937)

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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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  Mothers Day, Mom, Children

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.33, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Lying, Scared, Folks

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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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  Graduation, Talent, Shows

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

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  Life, Ocean, People

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.109, University of Illinois Press

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• Don't you realize that the sea is the home of water? All water is off on a journey unless it's in the sea, and it's homesick, and bound to make its way home someday.

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  Home, Journey, Ice Water

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  If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Feelings, Abuse, Doing Things For Others

  Zora Neale Hurston (1995). “Zora Neale Hurston: Novels and Stories: Jonah's Gourd Vine / Their Eyes Were Watching God / Moses, Man of the Mountain / Seraph on the Suwanee / Selected Stories”

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