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Looks Quotes by Zora Neale Hurston

9 Looks quotes by Zora Neale Hurston

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Zora Neale Hurston’s eight reflections on looks pulse with the rhythm of folk storytelling, celebrating how visual cues intertwine with cultural heritage. Her voice feels like a lively gathering where every observation adds color to the communal tapestry.

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

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Look lak she been livin' through uh hundred years in January without one day of spring.

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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…

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When the people sat around on the porch and passed around the pictures of their thoughts for the others to look at…

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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…

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Now they got to look into me loving Tea Cake and see whether it was done right or not! They don't know…

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Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the grand-daughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me.…

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So in Jamaica it is the aim of everybody to talk English, act English and look English. And that last specification is…

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Now, suppose a Negro does something really magnificent, and I glory, not in the benefit to mankind, but in the fact that…

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It seemed to me that the human beings I met reacted pretty much the same to the same stimuli. Different idioms,yes. Circumstances and conditions…

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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…

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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…

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“But mostly she lived between her hat and her heels, with her emotional disturbances like shade patterns in the woods—come and gone with the…

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Light came to me when I realized that I did not have to consider any racial group as a whole. God made them duck…

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Gods always behave like the people who make them.

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Love, I find, is like singing. Everyone can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

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“The woman took the faded shirt and muddy overalls and laid them away from remembrance. It was a weapon against her strength and if…

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“They plan and they fix and they do, and then some kitchen-dwelling fiend slips a scorchy, soggy, tasteless mess into their pots and pans…So…

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“Years ago, she had told her girl self to wait for her in the looking glass. It had been a long time since she…

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“Ah jus lak uh chicken. Chicken drink water, but he don’t pee-pee.”

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“Like the pecking-order in a chicken yard. Insensate cruelty to those you can whip, and groveling submission to those you can’t. Once having set…

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The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.

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Now, suppose a Negro does something really magnificent, and I glory, not in the benefit to mankind, but in the fact that the doer…

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Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.

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