My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONMy sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONThere is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONShe had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONJanie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONYou heard me. You ain’t blind.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONWhen one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONHe looked like the love thoughts of women.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONThe spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONIf 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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONIt was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONTruth is a letter from courage!
ZORA NEALE HURSTONShe was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONLook like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONIt was the meanest moment of eternity.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONShe starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONLove is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON