Zora Neale Hurston: Trending quotes (page 2)

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

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

“She didn't read books so she didn't know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.”

“A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.”

“I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.”

“They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.”

“Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see.”

“It was the meanest moment of eternity.”

“… she starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see…”

“I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands.”

“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.”

“Love, I find, is like singing.”

“If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.”

“He looked like the love thoughts of women.”

“Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.”

“Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!”