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 HurstonShe stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her. Then she went inside there to see what it was. It was her image of Jody tumbled down and shattered. But looking at it she saw that it never was the flesh and blood figure of her dreams. Just something she grabbed up to drape her dreams over. In a way she turned her back upon the image where it lay and looked further. She had no more blossomy openings dusting pollen over her man, neither any glistening young fruit where the petals used to be. She found that she had a host of thoughts she had never expressed to him, and numerous emotions she had never let Jody know about. Things packed up and put away in parts of her heart where he could never find them. She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen. She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
Zora Neale HurstonMaybe if she had known some other way to try, she might have made his face different. But what the other way could be, she had no idea.
Zora Neale HurstonNo, I do not weep at the world. I'm too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
Zora Neale HurstonTag: inspirational-life
People can be slave ships in shoes.
Zora Neale HurstonLook lak she been livin' through uh hundred years in January without one day of spring.
Zora Neale HurstonShe knew things that nobody had ever told her... She knew the world was a stallion rolling in the blue pastor of ether. She knew that God tore down the old world every evening and built a new one every sun-up. It was wonderful to see it take form with the sun and emerge from the gray dust of its making.
Zora Neale HurstonThose that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.
Zora Neale HurstonTag: pretense
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
Zora Neale HurstonWhy fear? The stuff of my being is matter, ever changing, ever moving, but never lost; so what need of denominations and creeds to deny myself the comfort of all my fellow men? The wide belt of the universe has no need for finger-rings. I am one with the infinite and need no other assurance.
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