Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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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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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches
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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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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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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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