To me, bitterness is the under-arm odor of wishful weakness. It is the graceless acknowledgment of defeat. Zora Neale Hurston More Quotes by Zora Neale Hurston More Quotes From 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. Zora Neale Hurston inspirational love life She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her. Zora Neale Hurston shelves All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk. Zora Neale Hurston kinfolk 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. Zora Neale Hurston time inspiring life 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 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. Zora Neale Hurston fighting country lying 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 looking mean and impressive. Zora Neale Hurston i-love-myself laughing mean truth is a letter from courage! Zora Neale Hurston truth-is letters 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 hurt. Zora Neale Hurston coward revenge hurt
