Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONShe didn’t read books so she didn’t know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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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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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.
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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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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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