She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONI 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.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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 like the sea. It’s a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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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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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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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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Two things everybody’s got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin’ fuh theyselves.
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It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
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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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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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