Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches
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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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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She didn’t read books so she didn’t know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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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It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
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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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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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