I 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 HURSTONIn the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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Love 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.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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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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If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
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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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It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.
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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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