Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONI made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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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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The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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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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Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
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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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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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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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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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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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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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