She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONAnytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man’s spice-box seasons his own food.
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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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Now, women forget all those things they don’t want to remember, and remember everything they don’t want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.
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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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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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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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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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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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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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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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