Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONJanie 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
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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Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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Truth is a letter from courage!
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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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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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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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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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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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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