No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONWhen one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
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Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at the sun.’ We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
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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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I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
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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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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
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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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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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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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