She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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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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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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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I don’t know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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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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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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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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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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There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man’s spice-box seasons his own food.
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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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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
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I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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Janie 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
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I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.
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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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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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Two things everybody’s got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin’ fuh theyselves.
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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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