Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
ZORA NEALE HURSTONNight came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
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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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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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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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She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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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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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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