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.
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.
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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She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
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Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don’t keer if you die at dusk. It’s so many people never seen de light at all.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.
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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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