An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONThere are years that ask questions and years that answer.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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Truth is a letter from courage!
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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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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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I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
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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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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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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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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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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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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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So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.
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