Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONShe knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.
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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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Now, women forget all those things they don’t want to remember, and remember everything they don’t want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.
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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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