She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONYou heard me. You ain’t blind.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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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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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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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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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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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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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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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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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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She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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Love is like the sea. It’s a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
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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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