She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONGrown 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.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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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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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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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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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches
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