A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONAnd 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.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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I have been in Sorrow’s kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands.
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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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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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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