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.
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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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.
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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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Truth is a letter from courage!
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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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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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In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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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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If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don’t keer if you die at dusk. It’s so many people never seen de light at all.
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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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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
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