Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONAn envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Now, women forget all those things they don’t want to remember, and remember everything they don’t want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.
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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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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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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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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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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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Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
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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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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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