Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONLove, I find, is like singing.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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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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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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Love is like the sea. It’s a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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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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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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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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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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