Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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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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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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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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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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 wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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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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He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
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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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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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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.
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