Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONShips at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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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 her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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If 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.
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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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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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I don’t know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.
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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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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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It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
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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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