"There is a basin in the mind where……" — Zora Neale Hurston
"There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought."
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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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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and…
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Because of this basin of repentance and knowledge of God, which has been ordained for the transgression of God's people,…
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Lake George is without comparison, the most beautiful water I ever saw; formed by a contour of mountains into a…
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I suppose it was that in courtship everything is regarded as provisional and preliminary, and the smallest sample of virtue…
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But when I look in the basin, among the curdlike blood clots, I see and elfin thorax, attentuated, its pencilline…
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If substantial methyl hydrate melt begins to occur in the Arctic Ocean basin, then the (carbon) accelerator will be jammed,…
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It's true. We're really working hard to make Incline Lake a reality, but that doesn't mean that we're not focused…
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Producing writing is not so much like filling a basin or pool once, but rather getting water to keep flowing…
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