Love, I find, is like singing.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONIt was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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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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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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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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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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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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I don’t know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
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