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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONPeople can be slave ships in shoes.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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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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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, I find, is like singing.
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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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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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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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Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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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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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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