She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONLove, I find, is like singing.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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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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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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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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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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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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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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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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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