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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONOne finds great comfort in good dinners.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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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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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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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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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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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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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.
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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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