So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONShe had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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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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She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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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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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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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Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.
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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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Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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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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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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