She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONLook like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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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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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
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Love is like the sea. It’s a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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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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There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it’s some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don’t know nothin’ but what we see.
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