It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONIt was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONWhen one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONHe was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONPeople can be slave ships in shoes.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONShe wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONI made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONThe present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONA thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONShe was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONThere 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 HURSTONJanie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONIt 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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONHe looked like the love thoughts of women.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONTwo things everybody’s got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin’ fuh theyselves.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONOne finds great comfort in good dinners.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONIf you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON