People can be slave ships in shoes.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONLove, I find, is like singing.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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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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I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
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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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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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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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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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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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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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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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