Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONShe wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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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
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it’s some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don’t know nothin’ but what we see.
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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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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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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 a sword in my hands.
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In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
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My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.
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The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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