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
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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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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I don’t know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.
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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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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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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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Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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