Heart Quotes by Zora Neale Hurston

18 Heart quotes by Zora Neale Hurston

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Zora Neale Hurston writes the heart with a Southern cadence and a scholar’s curiosity. These 18 lines pulse with humor, resilience, and the raw honesty of lived experience.

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

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every heart has its graveyard.

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“So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.”

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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.

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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.

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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…

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

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“She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.”

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She didn't read books so she didn't know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.

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She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.

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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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“Finally, she grew quiet. After that, coherent thought. With this, stalked through her a cold, bloody rage; Hours of this; a period…

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“Maybe if she had known some other way to try, she might have made his face different. But what the other way…

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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…

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“Janie stood where he left her for unmeasured time and thought. She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.…

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“She had been getting ready for her journey to the horizons in search of people; it was important to all the world…

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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her. Then she went inside there to see what it was. It…

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There is something about poverty that smells like death. Dead dreams dropping off the heart like leaves in a dry season and…

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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…

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Gods always behave like the people who make them.

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

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“The woman took the faded shirt and muddy overalls and laid them away from remembrance. It was a weapon against her strength and if…

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“They plan and they fix and they do, and then some kitchen-dwelling fiend slips a scorchy, soggy, tasteless mess into their pots and pans…So…

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“Years ago, she had told her girl self to wait for her in the looking glass. It had been a long time since she…

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“Ah jus lak uh chicken. Chicken drink water, but he don’t pee-pee.”

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“Like the pecking-order in a chicken yard. Insensate cruelty to those you can whip, and groveling submission to those you can’t. Once having set…

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

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Now, suppose a Negro does something really magnificent, and I glory, not in the benefit to mankind, but in the fact that the doer…

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Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.

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