Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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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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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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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