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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONShe was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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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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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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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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