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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONThe sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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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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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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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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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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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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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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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 had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found 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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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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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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