You heard me. You ain’t blind.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONShe knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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Mama 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.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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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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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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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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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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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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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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