She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONThe sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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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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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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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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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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Truth is a letter from courage!
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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