I do not share the gloomy thought that Negroes in America are doomed to be stomped out bodaciously, nor even shackled to the bottom of things. Of course some of them will be tromped out, and some will always be at the bottom, keeping company with other bottom-folks.

Zora Neale Hurston

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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you e... by Zora Neale Hurston

If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.

Zora Neale Hurston

harlem-renaissance silent pain

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.

Zora Neale Hurston

success inspiring happiness

I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.

Zora Neale Hurston

nerves courage reality

I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. I do not belong to the sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a lowdown dirty deal and whose feelings are all hurt about it. Even in the helter-skelter skirmish that is my life, I have seen that the world is to the strong regardless of a little pigmentation more or less. No, I do not weep at the world—I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

Zora Neale Hurston

strong hurt dirty

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. by Zora Neale Hurston

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

Zora Neale Hurston

inspirational love life

She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her. by Zora Neale Hurston

She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.

Zora Neale Hurston

shelves

All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk. by Zora Neale Hurston

All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk.

Zora Neale Hurston

kinfolk

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a... by Zora Neale Hurston

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

Zora Neale Hurston

curiosity writing science

Everybody has some special road of thought along which they travel when they are alone to themselves. And his road of thought is what makes every man what he is.

Zora Neale Hurston

every-man special men

There's two things everybody got to find out for themselves: they got to find out about love, and they got to find out about living. Now, love is like the sea. It's a moving thing. And it's different on every shore. And living... well... There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Zora Neale Hurston

love-is years moving

There are years that ask questions and years that answer. by Zora Neale Hurston

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Zora Neale Hurston

time inspiring life

Once you wake up thought in a man, you can never put it to sleep... by Zora Neale Hurston

Once you wake up thought in a man, you can never put it to sleep again.

Zora Neale Hurston

sleep motivational men

If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you... by Zora Neale Hurston

If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it.

Zora Neale Hurston

following-your-own-path personality shows

I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.

Zora Neale Hurston

kitchen rainbow hands

I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her. by Zora Neale Hurston

I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.

Zora Neale Hurston

fighting country lying

Such as I am, I am a precious gift. by Zora Neale Hurston

Such as I am, I am a precious gift.

Zora Neale Hurston

precious-gifts giving

I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am lo... by Zora Neale Hurston

I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.

Zora Neale Hurston

i-love-myself laughing mean

truth is a letter from courage! by Zora Neale Hurston

truth is a letter from courage!

Zora Neale Hurston

truth-is letters

It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser. by Zora Neale Hurston

It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.

Zora Neale Hurston

loser fighting games

Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been h... by Zora Neale Hurston

Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.

Zora Neale Hurston

coward revenge hurt