Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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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Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at the sun.’ We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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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Truth is a letter from courage!
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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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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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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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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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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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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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