"When the people sat around on the porch……" — Zora Neale Hurston
"When the people sat around on the porch and passed around the pictures of their thoughts for the others to look at and see, it was nice. The fact that the thought pictures were always crayon enlargements of life made it even nicer to listen to."
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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.
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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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