People can be slave ships in shoes.
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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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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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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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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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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He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
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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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She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
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Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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