There is two things everybody got to find out for themselves. They got to find out about love and they got to find out about living.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONIf you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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Love is like the sea. It’s a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
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There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.
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There 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.
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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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It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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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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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
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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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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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The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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