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Zora Neale Hurston has 168 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept.
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A great state is a well-blended mash of something of all the people and all of none of the people. The liquor…
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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…
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Women forget all the things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget.
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There is something about poverty that smells like death. Dead dreams dropping off the heart like leaves in a dry season and…
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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…
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I have known the joy and pain of friendship. I have served and been served. I have made some good enemies for…
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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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I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.
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If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it.
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I regret all of my books.
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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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Light came to me when I realized that I did not have to consider any racial group as a whole. God made…
— Zora Neale Hurston
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...I got a call from a record company offering me a contract, I did not want to take it because the Lord…
— Alice Coltrane
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My mother was a stay-at-home mom until I was about 11, when she got a job - and it was like a…
— Allison Pearson
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As I lived up to the highest light I had, higher and higher light came to me.
— Peace Pilgrim
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The Christian world, I discovered, was like the captain and crew of a vessel on the ocean without a compass, and tossed…
— Brigham Young
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When I was little there was a picture in one of our books, a dark place into which a single weak ray…
— William Faulkner
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The light came into the darkness, and the darkness did not understand it, but that no longer mattered because the light was…
— Ted Dekker
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There was a little corner of his mind that was still his own, and light came through it, as though a chink…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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I couldn't see his face, because the light came in from behind him and he was in shadow, and he said, "I…
— Steve Martin
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I am struck by the simplicity of light in the atmosphere in the autumn, as if the earth absorbed none, and out…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Walking at random through the streets, we came by chance upon the Cathedral of Notre Dame. I shall long remember my first…
— Bayard Taylor
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