I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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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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Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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She didn’t read books so she didn’t know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.
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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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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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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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