She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONThere is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man’s spice-box seasons his own food.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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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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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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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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Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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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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In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
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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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