One finds great comfort in good dinners.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONHe was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.
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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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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
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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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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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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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Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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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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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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Two things everybody’s got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin’ fuh theyselves.
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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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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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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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