"She didn't read books so she didn't know……" — Zora Neale Hurston
"She didn't read books so she didn't know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop."
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166 Quotes by Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston has 166 quotes on this site.
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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.…
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We must learn to be honest with ourselves, and know our shortcomings. We will acquire cohesion but we will pay…
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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…
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Light came to me when I realized that I did not have to consider any racial group as a whole.…
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I have known the joy and pain of friendship. I have served and been served. I have made some good…
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Now, suppose a Negro does something really magnificent, and I glory, not in the benefit to mankind, but in the…
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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…
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Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics.
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My mum and my husband are from Irish backgrounds, so we have a lot of potatoes. Chips, mashed, boiled, new…
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The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion;…
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I don't claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons…
— Jimmy Carter
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Why do they always put mud into coffee on board steamers? Why does the tea generally taste of boiled boots?
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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Remember, people will judge you by your actions not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold but so…
— Maya Angelou
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But some of us are beginning to pull well away, in our irritation, from...the exquisite tasters, the vintage snobs, the…
— J. B. Priestley
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When boiled down to its essence, unforgiveness is hatred.
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In our native terms, the ironic style is often compounded with the sardonic and the hard-boiled; even the effortlessly superior.…
— Christopher Hitchens
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I have to have breakfast and breakfast has to be eggs, whether in omelet form, hard-boiled, or over-easy,
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Really, all religious teachings can be boiled down to: “Just be cool. Don’t be an asshole.
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It's a pragmatist's business, comedy. Start off with good intentions and references to the Pompidou Centre and you end up…
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