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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The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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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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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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Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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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 had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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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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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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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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