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 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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Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
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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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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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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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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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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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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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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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There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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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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