He looked like the love thoughts of women.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONHe looked like the love thoughts of women.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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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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Two things everybody’s got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin’ fuh theyselves.
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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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And I can’t die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I’m a cracked plate.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
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Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it’s some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don’t know nothin’ but what we see.
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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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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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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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