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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her. — Zora Neale Hurston

she received all things with the stolidness of the earth which soaks up urine and perfume with the same indifference. — Zora Neale Hurston

But as de old folk always say, Ah'm born but Ah ain't dead. No tellin' whut Ah'm liable tuh do yet. — Zora Neale Hurston

Every morning the world flung itself over and exposed the town to the sun. — Zora Neale Hurston

Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens. — Zora Neale Hurston

Six eyes were questioning God. — Zora Neale Hurston

Put simply, Hurston wrote well when she was comfortable, wrote poorly when she was not. — Zora Neale Hurston

Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat! — Zora Neale Hurston

I was born in a Negro town. — Zora Neale Hurston

Taint no law on earth dat kin make a man be decent if it aint in 'im. — Zora Neale Hurston

Ah'm uh man even if Ah is de Mayor. But de mayor's wife is somethin' different again. — Zora Neale Hurston

God took pattern after a pine tree and built you noble. — Zora Neale Hurston

Just g'wan back home and set down on yo' royal diasticutis and say nothin'. — Zora Neale Hurston

Every tub sits on its bottom. — Zora Neale Hurston

Faith hasn't got no eyes, but she's long-legged. — Zora Neale Hurston

not enough to make a flea a waltzing jacket. — Zora Neale Hurston

The sounds lulled Janie to soft slumber and she woke up with Tea Cake combing her hair — Zora Neale Hurston

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 — Zora Neale Hurston

It connected itself with other vaguely felt matters that had struck her outside observation and buried themselves in her flesh. — Zora Neale Hurston

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. — Zora Neale Hurston

It costs you something to do good! — Zora Neale Hurston

So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day. — Zora Neale Hurston

There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man's spice-box seasons his own food. — Zora Neale Hurston

Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them. — Zora Neale Hurston

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell. — Zora Neale Hurston

Every heart has its graveyard. — Zora Neale Hurston

Well, Ah see Mouth-Almighty is still sittin' in de same place. And Ah reckon they got me up in they mouth now. — Zora Neale Hurston

Ah done been tuh de horizon and back and now Ah kin set heah in mah house and live by comparisons. — Zora Neale Hurston

A little seed of fear was growing into a tree. — Zora Neale Hurston

He meant to marry her right from the train. Hurry up and come because he was about to turn into pure sugar thinking about her. — Zora Neale Hurston

But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem. — Zora Neale Hurston

Tea Cake went out and wandered around. Saw the hand of horror on everything. — Zora Neale Hurston

We must learn to be honest with ourselves, and know our shortcomings. We will acquire cohesion but we will pay dearly for being a slow pupil. — Zora Neale Hurston

Love, I find, is like singing. — Zora Neale Hurston

Joe was not there waiting for her, the change — Zora Neale Hurston

You switches a mean fanny round in a kitchen. — Zora Neale Hurston

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. — Zora Neale Hurston

There is two things everybody got to find out for theirselves. They got to find out about love and they got to find out about living. — Zora Neale Hurston

I note that the Africa loves to depict the grace of reptiles. — Zora Neale Hurston

So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter. — Zora Neale Hurston

They bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and then again he was all of these things because the town bowed down. — Zora Neale Hurston

Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me. — Zora Neale Hurston

Look lak we done run our conversation from grass roots tuh pine trees. — Zora Neale Hurston

[Proverbs] are short sayings made out of long experience. — Zora Neale Hurston

Janie, Ah hope God may kill me, if Ah'm lyin'. Nobody else on earth kin hold uh candle tuh you, baby. You got de keys to de kingdom. — Zora Neale Hurston

They sat on the boarding house porch and saw the sun plunge into the same crack in the earth from which the night emerged. — Zora Neale Hurston

Janie full of that oldest human longing - self-revelation. — Zora Neale Hurston

Unless you see de fur, a mink skin ain't no different from a coon hide. — Zora Neale Hurston

It's uh known fact ... you got tuh go there tuh know there. Yo' papa and yo' mama and nobody else can't tell yuh and show yuh. — Zora Neale Hurston

It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing. — Zora Neale Hurston

De object wuz tuh git dere. So Ah got up on de high stool lak she told me, but Pheoby, Ah done nearly languished tuh death up dere. — Zora Neale Hurston

I've been to sorrow's kitchen and licked all of the pots.
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That was the rock she was battered against. — Zora Neale Hurston

In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie's ear. Doubt. — Zora Neale Hurston

Slogans can be worse than swords if they are only put in the right mouths. — Zora Neale Hurston

She left the porch pelting her back with unasked questions. They hoped the answers were cruel and strange. — Zora Neale Hurston

Like the dead-seeming, cold rocks, I have memories within that came out of the material that went to make me. Time and place have had their say. — Zora Neale Hurston

In this chapter, what do you find out about Janie's parents and early childhood? CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.1 — Zora Neale Hurston

Some of dese mornin's and it won't be long, you gointuh wake up callin' me and Ah'll be gone. — Zora Neale Hurston

You got de keys to de kingdom. — Zora Neale Hurston

...you got tuh go there tuh know there. — Zora Neale Hurston

She must talk to a man who was ten immensities away. — Zora Neale Hurston

No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you. — Zora Neale Hurston

But nothin' can stop you from wishin'. — Zora Neale Hurston

A man is up against a hard game when he must die to beat it. — Zora Neale Hurston

It looked so quiet and peaceful around. But the stillness was the sleep of swords. — Zora Neale Hurston

Now, Pheoby, don't feel too mean wid de rest of 'em 'cause dey's parched up from not knowin' things. — Zora Neale Hurston

He looked like the love thoughts of women. — Zora Neale Hurston

Once you wake up thought in a man, you can never put it to sleep again. — Zora Neale Hurston

Perhaps I am just a coward who loves to laugh at life better than I do cry with it. But when I do get to crying, boy, I can roll a mean tear. — Zora Neale Hurston

You got to go there to know there. — Zora Neale Hurston

Ah jus' know dat God snatched me out de fire through you. And Ah loves yuh and feel glad. — Zora Neale Hurston

He has only heard what I felt. — Zora Neale Hurston

No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep. — Zora Neale Hurston

On the whole I feel like a brown paper bag. — Zora Neale Hurston

Pheoby's hungry listening helped Janie to tell her story. — Zora Neale Hurston

You'se something tuh make uh man forgit to git old and forgit tuh die. — Zora Neale Hurston

I regret all of my books. — Zora Neale Hurston

It was the meanest moment of eternity. — Zora Neale Hurston

Everybody is two beings: one lives and flourishes in the daylight and stands guard. The other being walks and howls at night. — Zora Neale Hurston

But I ain't puttin' it in de street. Ah'm tellin' you.'
'Ah jus lak uh chicken. Chicken drink water, but he don't pee-pee. — Zora Neale Hurston

Long before the year was up, Janie noticed that her husband had stopped talkin to he rin rhymes. — Zora Neale Hurston

Affection makes your spirit slither out from its concealing spot. — Zora Neale Hurston

The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor. — Zora Neale Hurston

You have no idea, sir, how difficult it is to be the victim of benevolence. — Zora Neale Hurston

It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say. — Zora Neale Hurston

My head was full of misty fumes of doubt. — Zora Neale Hurston

The varicolored cloud dust that the sun has stirred up in the sky was settling by slow degrees. — Zora Neale Hurston

Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships. — Zora Neale Hurston

I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her. — Zora Neale Hurston

Time makes everything old so the kissing, young darkness became a monstropolous old thing while Janie talked. — Zora Neale Hurston

A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it. — Zora Neale Hurston

Distance is the only cure for certain diseases. — Zora Neale Hurston

To me, bitterness is the under-arm odor of wishful weakness. It is the graceless acknowledgment of defeat. — Zora Neale Hurston

Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey's back. — Zora Neale Hurston

But stillness was the sleep of swords. — Zora Neale Hurston

Magic is older than writing. So nobody knows how it started. — Zora Neale Hurston

Africa has her mouth on Moses. — Zora Neale Hurston

I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions. — Zora Neale Hurston

People can be slave ships in shoes. — Zora Neale Hurston