She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONAn envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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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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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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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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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.
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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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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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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Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
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