If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don't keer if you die at dusk. It's so many people never seen de light at all.
Zora Neale HurstonStichwörter: inspirational love
Pheoby, yuh got tuh go there tuh know there. Yo' papa and yo' mama and nobody else can't tell yuh and show yuh. Two things everybody's got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God and they got tuh find out about livin fuh theyselves.
Zora Neale HurstonStichwörter: life
I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
Zora Neale HurstonHer old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.
Zora Neale HurstonOh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
Zora Neale HurstonMama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
Zora Neale HurstonResearch is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
Zora Neale HurstonStichwörter: writing
It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.
Zora Neale HurstonSometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.
Zora Neale HurstonStichwörter: humor self-worth self-assurance discrimination
She had found a jewel down inside herself and she had wanted to walk where people could see her and gleam it around. But she had been set in the market-place to sell. Been set for still bait. When God had made The Man, he made him out of stuff that sung all the time and glittered all over. Then after that some angels got jealous and chopped him into millions of pieces, but still he glittered and hummed. So they beat him down to nothing but sparks but each little spark had a shine and a song. So they covered each one over with mud. And the lonesomeness in the sparks made them hunt for one another, but the mud is deaf and dumb. Like all the other tumbling mud-balls, Janie had tried to show her shine.
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