She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONNo hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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She didn’t read books so she didn’t know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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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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.
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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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I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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Truth is a letter from courage!
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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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She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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