"Lack of power and opportunity passes off too……" — Zora Neale Hurston

"Lack of power and opportunity passes off too often for virtue."

— Zora Neale Hurston

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166 Quotes by Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston has 166 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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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This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth… — Pietro Aretino
Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento

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