She didn’t read books so she didn’t know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.
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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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.
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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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She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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I have been in Sorrow’s kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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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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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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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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