Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
ZORA NEALE HURSTONPeople can be slave ships in shoes.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.
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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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Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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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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There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
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Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at the sun.’ We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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Truth is a letter from courage!
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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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