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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONNothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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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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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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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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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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Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it’s some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don’t know nothin’ but what we see.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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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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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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