The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONMama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at the sun.’ We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
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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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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 present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Truth is a letter from courage!
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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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In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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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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There is two things everybody got to find out for themselves. They got to find out about love and they got to find out about living.
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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