In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONResearch is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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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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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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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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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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I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
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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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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.
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So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.
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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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