The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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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I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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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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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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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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The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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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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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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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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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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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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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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Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it’s some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don’t know nothin’ but what we see.
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