Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at the sun.’ We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONI 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.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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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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There is two things everybody got to find out for themselves. They got to find out about love and they got to find out about living.
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Truth is a letter from courage!
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She didn’t read books so she didn’t know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.
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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving 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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