It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONTea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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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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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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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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Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches
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