Love, I find, is like singing.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONShe starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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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It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don’t keer if you die at dusk. It’s so many people never seen de light at all.
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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.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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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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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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