Love, I find, is like singing.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONIf you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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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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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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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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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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Two things everybody’s got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin’ fuh theyselves.
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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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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Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
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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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