You heard me. You ain’t blind.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONThe spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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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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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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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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In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
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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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It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
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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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There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.
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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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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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She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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