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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONSometimes, 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.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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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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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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Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
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Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man’s spice-box seasons his own food.
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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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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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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