It 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 is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man’s spice-box seasons his own food.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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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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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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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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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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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don’t keer if you die at dusk. It’s so many people never seen de light at all.
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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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