An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
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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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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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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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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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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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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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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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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She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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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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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
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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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