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• Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear, and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Fear, Men, Suffering

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.174, University of Illinois Press

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• Tain't no use in you cryin' . . . But folks is meant to cry 'bout somethin' or other. Better leave things de way dey is. Youse young yet. No tellin' whut mout happen befo' you die.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Use, Way, Cry

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.31, University of Illinois Press

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

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Sky, Yellow, Light

  Zora Neale Hurston (1995). “Zora Neale Hurston: Novels and Stories: Jonah's Gourd Vine / Their Eyes Were Watching God / Moses, Man of the Mountain / Seraph on the Suwanee / Selected Stories”

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• If it was so honorable and glorious to be black, why was it the yellow-skinned people among us had so much prestige?

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Yellow, People, Black

  Zora Neale Hurston (1969). “Dust tracks on a road”

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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.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Islands, Race, Blood

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• It was the meanest moment of eternity.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Bereavement, Moments, Eternity

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.221, University of Illinois Press

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• The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  People, Lovable, Haitian

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

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Men, Dies

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.166, University of Illinois Press

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• When I pitched headforemost into the world I landed in the crib of Negroism.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Ambition, Racism, World

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.82, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Politics, Liquor

  Zora Neale Hurston (1995). “Zora Neale Hurston: Novels and Stories: Jonah's Gourd Vine / Their Eyes Were Watching God / Moses, Man of the Mountain / Seraph on the Suwanee / Selected Stories”

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• Now they got to look into me loving Tea Cake and see whether it was done right or not! They don't know if life is a mess of corn-meal dumplings, and if love is a bed-quilt!

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Quilts, Love Is, Loving Life

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.10, University of Illinois Press

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• Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Dark, Rocks, White

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.154, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Son, Cake, Tea

  "Their eyes were watching God: a novel".

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

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Orange, Green, Janie

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.249, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it's some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don't know nothin' but what we see.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Ocean, Men, White Man

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.19, University of Illinois Press

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