Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONTwo things everybody’s got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin’ fuh theyselves.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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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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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 been in Sorrow’s kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands.
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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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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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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man’s spice-box seasons his own food.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don’t keer if you die at dusk. It’s so many people never seen de light at all.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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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 was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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