Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONNight came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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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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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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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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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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And I can’t die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I’m a cracked plate.
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