She didn’t read books so she didn’t know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONShe didn’t read books so she didn’t know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONThere 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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONIt was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONResearch is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONA thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONI made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONIf you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONI love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONShips at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONMy 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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONLove 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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONPeople can be slave ships in shoes.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONJanie 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
ZORA NEALE HURSTONIf 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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONIn the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONOne finds great comfort in good dinners.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON