In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONSo 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.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
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There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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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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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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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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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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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Two things everybody’s got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin’ fuh theyselves.
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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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