Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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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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He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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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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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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And I can’t die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I’m a cracked plate.
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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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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 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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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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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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