She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONShe had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONAn envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONMy head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONThere 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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONShe had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONShe starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONI 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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONShips at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONI love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONThere are years that ask questions and years that answer.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONThe sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONI have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONLove is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONMama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at the sun.’ We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONResearch is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONNight came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON