A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONA thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONI made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONShe knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONIt was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONIt seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONThere are years that ask questions and years that answer.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONShe stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONI will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONMy head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONShe wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONNight came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONAn envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONGrown 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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONThe sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONYou heard me. You ain’t blind.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONShe had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON