She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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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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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don’t keer if you die at dusk. It’s so many people never seen de light at all.
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Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.
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Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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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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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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