She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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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Now, women forget all those things they don’t want to remember, and remember everything they don’t want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.
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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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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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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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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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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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Truth is a letter from courage!
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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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There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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