Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONLove, I find, is like singing.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.
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There is two things everybody got to find out for themselves. They got to find out about love and they got to find out about living.
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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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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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