Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONYou heard me. You ain’t blind.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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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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Love, I find, is like singing.
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If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
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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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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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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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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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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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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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Truth is a letter from courage!
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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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