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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONBitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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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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I don’t know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.
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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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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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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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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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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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Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
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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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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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And 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.
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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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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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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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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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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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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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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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