Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
ZORA NEALE HURSTONI 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.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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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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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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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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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
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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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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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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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Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at the sun.’ We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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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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She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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Truth is a letter from courage!
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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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