So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONMama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at the sun.’ We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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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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Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
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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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Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.
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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 have been in Sorrow’s kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands.
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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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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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