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 HURSTONHoney, 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.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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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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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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Love is like the sea. It’s a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
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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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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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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Two things everybody’s got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin’ fuh theyselves.
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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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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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