She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONLove makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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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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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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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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She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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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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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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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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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 stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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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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If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don’t keer if you die at dusk. It’s so many people never seen de light at all.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches
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