So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONShe had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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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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It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
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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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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.
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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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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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