There 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 HURSTONNight came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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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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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches
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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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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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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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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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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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
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