She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONShe was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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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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If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
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Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
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Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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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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She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found 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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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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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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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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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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There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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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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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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The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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