Zora Neale Hurston on thinking
Zora Neale Hurston76 quotes“Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.”
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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
Zora Neale HurstonZora Neale Hurston She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
Zora Neale HurstonZora Neale Hurston If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
Zora Neale HurstonZora Neale Hurston You heard me. You ain’t blind.
Zora Neale HurstonZora Neale Hurston 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.
Zora Neale HurstonZora Neale Hurston Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
Zora Neale HurstonZora Neale Hurston Truth is a letter from courage!
Zora Neale HurstonZora Neale Hurston Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
Zora Neale HurstonZora Neale Hurston She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
Zora Neale HurstonZora Neale Hurston Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
Zora Neale HurstonZora Neale Hurston An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
Zora Neale HurstonZora Neale Hurston 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.
Zora Neale HurstonZora Neale Hurston There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man’s spice-box seasons his own food.
Zora Neale HurstonZora Neale Hurston 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.
Zora Neale HurstonZora Neale Hurston Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
Zora Neale HurstonZora Neale Hurston I don’t know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.
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