Love, I find, is like singing.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONShe was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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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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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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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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In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
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She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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Now, women forget all those things they don’t want to remember, and remember everything they don’t want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.
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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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Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
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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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