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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONHer old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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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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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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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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And I can’t die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I’m a cracked plate.
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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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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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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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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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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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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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Love, I find, is like singing.
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