One finds great comfort in good dinners.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONNight came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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Truth is a letter from courage!
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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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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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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He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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Love is like the sea. It’s a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
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She didn’t read books so she didn’t know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.
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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
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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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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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