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 HURSTONMy head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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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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Now, women forget all those things they don’t want to remember, and remember everything they don’t want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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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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Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
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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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She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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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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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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