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 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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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Two things everybody’s got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin’ fuh theyselves.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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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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Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
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