Zora Neale Hurston citations (74 citations, Page 2)

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“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.”

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Zora Neale Hurston livre Their Eyes Were Watching God

Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), Ch. 20, p. 193.
Contexte: Of course he wasn't dead. He could never be dead until she herself had finished feeling and thinking. The kiss of his memory made pictures of love and light against the wall. 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.”

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Zora Neale Hurston livre Their Eyes Were Watching God

Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God

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

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Zora Neale Hurston livre Their Eyes Were Watching God

Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God

“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.”

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Zora Neale Hurston livre Dust Tracks on a Road

Source: Dust Tracks on a Road

“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.”

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“Love, I find, is like singing.”

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“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.”

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“He looked like the love thoughts of women.”

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Zora Neale Hurston livre Their Eyes Were Watching God

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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.”

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Zora Neale Hurston livre Their Eyes Were Watching God

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

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Zora Neale Hurston livre Their Eyes Were Watching God

Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God

“An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.”

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“Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to "jump at de sun."”

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Zora Neale Hurston livre Dust Tracks on a Road

Source: Dust Tracks on a Road (1942), Ch.2 : My Folks, p. 13.
Contexte: Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to "jump at de sun." We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.

“You heard me. You ain't blind.”

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“Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.”

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“Please God, please suh, don't let him love nobody else but me. Maybe Ah'm is uh fool, Lawd, lak dey say, but Lawd, Ah been so lonesome, and Ah been waitin', Jesus. Ah done waited uh long time.”

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Zora Neale Hurston livre Their Eyes Were Watching God

Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God

“It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.”

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