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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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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The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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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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She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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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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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man’s spice-box seasons his own food.
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Truth is a letter from courage!
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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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