"...she starched and ironed her face, forming it……" — Zora Neale Hurston

"...she starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see..."

— 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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More Face Quotes

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One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about… — J. J. Abrams
If I can't face my accusers, that's a joke. We did that in medieval times. — Lance Armstrong
I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's… — Neil Armstrong
I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people,… — Arthur Ashe
It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. — Francis of Assisi
The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. — Fred Astaire
Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing. — Kevyn Aucoin
My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. — Diane Ackerman
I was in preschool and a girl actually kissed me on the cheek. I didn't know what to do. I… — Jensen Ackles
I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that. — Lauren Bacall
It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when you're finished and… — Red Adair

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