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.
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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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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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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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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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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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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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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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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