And I can’t die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I’m a cracked plate.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONNo hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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Love is like the sea. It’s a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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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.
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Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
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She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
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