The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONSome people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.
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Truth is a letter from courage!
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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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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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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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Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at the sun.’ We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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There 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.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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