The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONThe spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONAnd 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 HURSTONAn envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONThe sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONNow, 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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONShe starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONI 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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONSo her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONHalf Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONIt was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONShe had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONJanie 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
ZORA NEALE HURSTONPeople can be slave ships in shoes.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONIn the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONNo hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONShe was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON