When Janie looked out of her door she saw the drifting mists gathered in the west – that cloud field of the sky – to arm themselves with thunders and march forth against the world. Louder and higher and lower and wider the sound and motion spread, mounting, sinking, darking.

— Zora Neale Hurston

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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.

— Zora Neale Hurston

Resistance Sad About Life Silence

It costs you something to do good!

— Zora Neale Hurston

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

— Zora Neale Hurston

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

— 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

Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.

— Zora Neale Hurston

An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.

— Zora Neale Hurston

The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.

— Zora Neale Hurston

Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.

— Zora Neale Hurston

Every morning the world flung itself over and exposed the town to the sun.

— Zora Neale Hurston

When the people sat around on the porch and passed around the pictures of their thoughts for the others to look at and see, it was nice. The fact that the thought pictures were always crayon enlargements of life made it even nicer to listen to.

— Zora Neale Hurston

The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.

— Zora Neale Hurston

He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.

— Zora Neale Hurston

There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.

— Zora Neale Hurston

So Janie waited a bloom time, and a green time and an orange time.

— Zora Neale Hurston

It was the meanest moment of eternity.

— Zora Neale Hurston

You’se something tuh make uh man forgit to git old and forgit tuh die.

— Zora Neale Hurston

She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.

— Zora Neale Hurston

She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.

— Zora Neale Hurston

Please God, please suh, don’t let him love nobody else but me. Maybe Ah’m is uh fool, Lawd, lak dey say, but Lawd, Ah been so lonesome, and Ah been waitin’, Jesus. Ah done waited uh long time.

— Zora Neale Hurston

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