And I can’t die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I’m a cracked plate.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONLove 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.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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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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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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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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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
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I don’t know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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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I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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