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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONNo hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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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.
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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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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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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 knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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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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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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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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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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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
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