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.
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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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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Love, I find, is like singing.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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She didn’t read books so she didn’t know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.
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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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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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There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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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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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.
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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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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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