Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONHalf Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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 nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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Now, women forget all those things they don’t want to remember, and remember everything they don’t want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.
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I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
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Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
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So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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