The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONThe sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONIf you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONShe stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONAn envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONAnytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
ZORA NEALE HURSTONHe was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONIf 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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONSo she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONThere 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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONShe had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONOne finds great comfort in good dinners.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONMy head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONA thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONSo her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONJanie 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
ZORA NEALE HURSTONYou heard me. You ain’t blind.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON