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
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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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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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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I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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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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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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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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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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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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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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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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