So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Truth is a letter from courage!
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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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There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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Now, women forget all those things they don’t want to remember, and remember everything they don’t want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.
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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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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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She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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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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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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