She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONI have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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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In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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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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So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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