Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
ZORA NEALE HURSTONI love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
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Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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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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It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
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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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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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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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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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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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