One finds great comfort in good dinners.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONIf you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it’s some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don’t know nothin’ but what we see.
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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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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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
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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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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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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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