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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONThere is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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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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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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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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Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at the sun.’ We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
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Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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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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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.
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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