Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONAnytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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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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Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.
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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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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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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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Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
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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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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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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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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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