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.
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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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
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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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Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it’s some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don’t know nothin’ but what we see.
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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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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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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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She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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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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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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