"It certainly is hard, Amram, getting use to…" — Zora Neale Hurston
"It certainly is hard, Amram, getting use to being a slave."
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166 Quotes by Zora Neale Hurston
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- Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept.
- A great state is a well-blended mash of something of all the people and all of none of the people.…
- We must learn to be honest with ourselves, and know our shortcomings. We will acquire cohesion but we will pay…
- Women forget all the things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget.
- There is something about poverty that smells like death. Dead dreams dropping off the heart like leaves in a dry…
- Light came to me when I realized that I did not have to consider any racial group as a whole.…
- I have known the joy and pain of friendship. I have served and been served. I have made some good…
- Now, suppose a Negro does something really magnificent, and I glory, not in the benefit to mankind, but in the…
- I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.
- If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it.
- I regret all of my books.
- Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the grand-daughter of slaves. It fails to register depression…
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