A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink 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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There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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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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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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Truth is a letter from courage!
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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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I have been in Sorrow’s kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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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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She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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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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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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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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