Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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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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Truth is a letter from courage!
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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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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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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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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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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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She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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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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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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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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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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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