Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONI made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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Truth is a letter from courage!
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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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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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And 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.
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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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Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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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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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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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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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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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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