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 HURSTONHe was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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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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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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The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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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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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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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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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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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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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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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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In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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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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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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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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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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Truth is a letter from courage!
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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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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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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