She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONThey seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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.
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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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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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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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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.
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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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She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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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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There is two things everybody got to find out for themselves. They got to find out about love and they got to find out about living.
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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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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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