Love, I find, is like singing.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONTea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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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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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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The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside 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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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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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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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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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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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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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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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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