And I can’t die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I’m a cracked plate.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONLove makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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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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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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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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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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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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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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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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