Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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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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There is two things everybody got to find out for themselves. They got to find out about love and they got to find out about living.
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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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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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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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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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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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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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