He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONNight came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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There is two things everybody got to find out for themselves. They got to find out about love and they got to find out about living.
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I don’t know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.
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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.
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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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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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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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In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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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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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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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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