When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONNothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
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Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.
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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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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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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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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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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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