Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONIt was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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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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Love, I find, is like singing.
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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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Truth is a letter from courage!
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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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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I 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.
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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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