I have been in Sorrow’s kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands.
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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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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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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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Truth is a letter from courage!
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
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It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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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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