Mind Quotes by Zora Neale Hurston

12 Mind quotes by Zora Neale Hurston

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Hurston’s voice carries the cadence of the South, and these twelve lines reveal her playful yet incisive view of mental life. They’re a bright entry point for readers curious about her perspective.

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“They, the men, were saving with the mind what they lost with the eye.”

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I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.

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I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do…

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They bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and then again he was all of these things…

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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…

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He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn…

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I don't know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I…

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“There was already something dead about him. He didn’t rear back in his knees any longer. He squatted over his ankles when…

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There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is…

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“For the first time she could see a man's head naked of its skull. Saw the cunning thoughts race in and out…

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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…

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I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do…

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

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