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 HURSTONIf you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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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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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don’t keer if you die at dusk. It’s so many people never seen de light at all.
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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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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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It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
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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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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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