Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONShips at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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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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He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving 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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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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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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I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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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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Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
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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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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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