An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
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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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man’s spice-box seasons his own food.
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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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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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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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She didn’t read books so she didn’t know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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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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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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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 was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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Truth is a letter from courage!
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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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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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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
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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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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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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