Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.
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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Love, I find, is like singing.
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There is two things everybody got to find out for themselves. They got to find out about love and they got to find out about living.
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Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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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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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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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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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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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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