People can be slave ships in shoes.
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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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude 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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There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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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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I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.
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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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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Love is like the sea. It’s a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
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