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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONLook like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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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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There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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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.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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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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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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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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