He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONLove is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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.
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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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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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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 love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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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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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.
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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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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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There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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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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She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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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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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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