The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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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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She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.
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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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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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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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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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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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