She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONHoney, 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.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
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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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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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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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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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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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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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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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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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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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