He looked like the love thoughts of women.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONThe present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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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Two things everybody’s got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin’ fuh theyselves.
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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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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I don’t know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.
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Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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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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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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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 had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
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She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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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 stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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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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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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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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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 knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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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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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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