An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONWhen one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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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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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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And I can’t die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I’m a cracked plate.
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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.
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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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Two things everybody’s got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin’ fuh theyselves.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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