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It costs you something to do good!

Zora Neale Hurston

Cost

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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Women forget all the things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget.

Zora Neale Hurston

Remembers Everything, His Eyes, Want

Their Eyes Were Watching God ch. 1 (1937)

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She often spoke to falling seeds and said, "Ah hope you fall on soft ground," because she had heard seeds saying that to each other as they passed. The familiar people and things had failed her so she hung over the gate and looked up the road towards way off. She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie's first dream was dead, so she became a woman.

Zora Neale Hurston

Dream, Fall, People

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Love, I find, is like singing.

Zora Neale Hurston

Love Is, Singing

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.71, Feminist Press at CUNY

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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

Fit, Made, Said

Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.41, University of Illinois Press

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Most things are born in the mothering darkness and most things die. Darkness is the womb of creation, my boy. But the sun with his seven horns of flame is the father of life.

Zora Neale Hurston

Father, Boys, Flames

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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The game of keeping what one has is never so exciting as the game of getting.

Zora Neale Hurston

Ambition, Games, Exciting

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.153, Feminist Press at CUNY

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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.

Zora Neale Hurston

Men, Saving Up, Feelings

Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.87, University of Illinois Press

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

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Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.87, University of Illinois Press

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When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.

Zora Neale Hurston

Men, Glamorous, Draws

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.73, Feminist Press at CUNY

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If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don't keer if you die at dusk. It's so many people never seen de light at all.

Zora Neale Hurston

Light, People, Dusk

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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I had hundreds of books under my skin already. Not selected reading, all of it. Some of it could be called trashy. I had been through Nick Carter, Horatio Alger, Bertha M. Clay and the whole slew of dime novelists in addition to some really constructive reading. I do not regret the trash. It has harmed me in no way. It was a help, because acquiring the reading habit early is the important thing. Taste and natural development will take care of the rest later on.

Zora Neale Hurston

Regret, Book, Reading

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It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.

Zora Neale Hurston

Dream, Blessing, People

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.42, Feminist Press at CUNY

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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.

Zora Neale Hurston

Doubt, Misty

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

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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

Thinking, Race, Minorities

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.171, Feminist Press at CUNY

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When we sing the blues, we're singin' out our hearts, we're singing out our feelings. Maybe we're hurt and just can't answer back, then we sing or maybe even hum the blues.

Zora Neale Hurston

Hurt, Heart, Feelings

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

Zora Neale Hurston

Crush, Self, Soul

Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.155, University of Illinois Press

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...she woke up in time to see the sun sending up spies ahead of him to mark out the road through the dark. He peeped up over the door sill of the world and made a little foolishness with red.

Zora Neale Hurston

Dark, Doors, Spy

Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.145, University of Illinois Press

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Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.

Zora Neale Hurston

Distance, Men, Navy

Their Eyes Were Watching God ch. 1 (1937)

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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

Two, Two Things, Eyes Watching

Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.230, University of Illinois Press

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There is something about poverty that smells like death.

Zora Neale Hurston

Smell, Poverty

Zora Neale Hurston (1990). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, Harper Perennial

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She's got those big black eyes with plenty shiny white in them that makes them shine like brand new money and she knows what God gave women eyelashes for, too. Her hair is not what you might call straight. It's negro hair, but it's got a kind of white flavor. Like the piece of string out of a ham. It's not ham at all, but it's been around ham and got the flavor.

Zora Neale Hurston

Eye, Hair, White

Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.82, University of Illinois Press

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Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Zora Neale Hurston

Love, Singing, May

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.20, Feminist Press at CUNY

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Look lak she been livin' through uh hundred years in January without one day of spring.

Zora Neale Hurston

Spring, Years, One Day

Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.23, University of Illinois Press

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The inference is, that God has restated the superiority of the West. God always does like that when a thousand white people surround one dark one. Dark people are always "bad" when they do not admit the Divine Plan like that. A certain Javanese man who sticks up for Indonesian Independence is very lowdown by the papers, and suspected of being a Japanese puppet.

Zora Neale Hurston

Dark, Men, 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.166, Feminist Press at CUNY

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Born: January 7, 1891
Died: January 28, 1960
Occupation: Anthropologist
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