Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONLove, I find, is like singing.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.
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So 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.
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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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Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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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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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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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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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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Love, I find, is like singing.
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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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Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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