She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONThere is two things everybody got to find out for themselves. They got to find out about love and they got to find out about living.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside 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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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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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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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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Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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