She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONPeople can be slave ships in shoes.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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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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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
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There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.
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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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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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