Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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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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 had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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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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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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Mama 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.
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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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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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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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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Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches
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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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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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