She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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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Truth is a letter from courage!
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it’s some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don’t know nothin’ but what we see.
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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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In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
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She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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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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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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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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Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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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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