An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONHer old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside 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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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
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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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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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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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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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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.
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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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There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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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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