“No two moments are any more alike than two snowflakes. Like snowflakes, they get that same look from being so plentiful and falling so close together. But examine them closely and see the multiple differences between them. Each moment has its own task and capacity, and doesn’t melt down like snow and form again. It keeps its character forever. so the great difficulty lies in trying to transpose last night’s moment to a day which has no knowledge of it. That look, that tender touch, was issued by the mint of the richest of all kingdoms. That same expression of today is utter counterfeit, or at best the wildest of inflation.”
Zora Neale Hurston
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“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”
Zora Neale Hurston
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“I am her friend, and her tongue is in my mouth. I can speak her sentiments for her, though Ethel Waters can do very well indeed inspeaking for herself.”
Zora Neale Hurston
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“You can tell ’em what Ah say if you wants to. Dat’s just de same as me ’cause mah tongue is in mah friend’s mouf.”
Zora Neale Hurston
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“He looked like the love thoughts of women. He could be a bee to a blossom–a pear tree blossom in the spring. He seemed to be crushing scent out of the world with his footsteps. Crushing aromatic herbs with every step he took. Spices hung about him. He was a glance from God.”
Zora Neale Hurston
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“God took pattern after a pine tree and built you noble.”
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“I was born in a Negro town.”
Zora Neale Hurston
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“But I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all.I do not belong to the sobbing school of negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a lowdown dirty deal…. No, I do not weep at the world–I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.”
Zora Neale Hurston
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“So de white man throw down de load and tell de nigger man tuh pick it up. He pick it up because he have to, but he don’t tote it.He hand it to his womenfolks. De nigger woman is demule uh de world so fur as Ah can see. Ah been prayin’ fuh it tuh be different wid you. Lawd, Lawd, Lawd!”
Zora Neale Hurston
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“For four hundred years the blacks of Haiti had yearned for peace. for three hundred years the island was spoken of as a paradise of riches and pleasures, but that was in reference to the whites to whom the spirit of the land gave welcome. Haiti has meant split blood and tears for blacks.”
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“No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.”
Zora Neale Hurston
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“Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.”
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