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Zora Neale Hurston Quotes

«Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board»
Author: Zora Neale Hurston (Writer) | Keywords: board, ships
«People can be slave-ships in shoes.»
«Sometimes, 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.»
«No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.»
«The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.»
Author: Zora Neale Hurston (Writer) | About: Future, Past, The Present | Keywords: egg, laid, lay-by, shell
«There is something about poverty that smells like death.»
Author: Zora Neale Hurston (Writer) | About: Poverty | Keywords: smells
«Don't you realize that the sea is the home of water? All water is off on a journey unless it's in the sea, and it's homesick, and bound to make its way home someday»
Author: Zora Neale Hurston (Writer) | About: Water | Keywords: homesick, someday
«Mama 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.»
«Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear»
«Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural.»

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