Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONShe starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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My 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.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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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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Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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Now, women forget all those things they don’t want to remember, and remember everything they don’t want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.
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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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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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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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