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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONAnd I can’t die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I’m a cracked plate.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.
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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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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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Truth is a letter from courage!
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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 don’t know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.
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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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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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