So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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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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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
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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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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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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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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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I 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.
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