So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONYou heard me. You ain’t blind.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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 knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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Janie 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
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If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don’t keer if you die at dusk. It’s so many people never seen de light at all.
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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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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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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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