There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONHalf Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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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 stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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Truth is a letter from courage!
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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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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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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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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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Two things everybody’s got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin’ fuh theyselves.
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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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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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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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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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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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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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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