He looked like the love thoughts of women.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONThe present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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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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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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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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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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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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Love, I find, is like singing.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.
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