One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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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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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Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
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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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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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There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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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 is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man’s spice-box seasons his own food.
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Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don’t keer if you die at dusk. It’s so many people never seen de light at all.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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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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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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