She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONOne finds great comfort in good dinners.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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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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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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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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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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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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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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Truth is a letter from courage!
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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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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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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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