Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONA thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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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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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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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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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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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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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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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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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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I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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