The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONAn envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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There 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.
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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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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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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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Now, women forget all those things they don’t want to remember, and remember everything they don’t want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.
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Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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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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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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Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it’s some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don’t know nothin’ but what we see.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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