...she starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see...
Zora Neale HurstonIt seems to me to be true that heavens are placed in the sky because it is the unreachable. The unreachable and therefore the unknowable always seems divine--hence, religion. People need religion because the great masses fear life and its consequences. Its responsibilities weigh heavy. Feeling a weakness in the face of great forces, men seek an alliance with omnipotence to bolster up their feeling of weakness, even though the omnipotence they rely upon is a creature of their own minds. It gives them a feeling of security.
Zora Neale HurstonAre you so simple as to assume that the Big Surrender banished the concept of human slavery from the earth? What is the principle of slavery? Only the literal buying and selling of human flesh on the block? That was only an outside symbol. Real slavery is couched in the desire and the efforts of any man or community to live and advance their interests at the expense of the lives and interests of others. All of the outward signs come out of that.
Zora Neale HurstonI don't know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. . . I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.
Zora Neale HurstonBut as de old folks always say, Ah'm born but Ah ain't dead. No tellin' whut Ah'm liable tuh do yet.
Zora Neale HurstonTag: life unpredictability
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 HurstonTag: beautiful
They bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and then again he was all of these things because the town bowed down.
Zora Neale HurstonTag: language reciprocal
Long before the year was up, Janie noticed that her husband had stopped talkin to he rin rhymes.
Zora Neale HurstonSome people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
Zora Neale HurstonTag: inspirational classics
And I can't die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I'm a cracked plate.
Zora Neale HurstonTag: men mothers grandmothers janie
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