Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time.

Zora Neale Hurston

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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.

Zora Neale Hurston


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Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches

Zora Neale Hurston


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I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background........Beside the waters of the Hudson" I feel my race. Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept, but through it all, I remain myself. When covered by the waters, I am; and the ebb but reveals me again." How It Feels to Be Colored Me

Zora Neale Hurston


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anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!

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truth is a letter from courage!

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you can't beat me and my prayers!

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it seems that tears and laughter, love and hate, make up the sum of life!

Zora Neale Hurston


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Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.

Zora Neale Hurston


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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.

Zora Neale Hurston

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