Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONNo hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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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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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.
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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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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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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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She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.
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I don’t know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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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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