She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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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I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
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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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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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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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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.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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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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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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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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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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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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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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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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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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