Best Zora Neale Hurston Lines
- Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress. Black
- Every morning the world flung itself over and exposed the town to the sun. Every Morning
- When the people sat around on the porch and passed around the pictures of their thoughts for the others to look at and see, it… Crayon
- The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor. Bedroom
- ...she starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see... Face
- ...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… Ahead
- 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… Ah
- 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… All
- Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships. Life
- 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.… Black
- Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in… Branches
- I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background........Beside the waters of the Hudson" I feel my race. Among the thousand… All
- anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something! Anytime
- truth is a letter from courage! Courage
- you can't beat me and my prayers! Beat
- it seems that tears and laughter, love and hate, make up the sum of life! Hate
- But as de old folk always say, Ah'm born but Ah ain't dead. No tellin' whut Ah'm liable tuh do yet. Ah
- Look lak she been livin' through uh hundred years in January without one day of spring. Been
- If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it. Enjoyed
- Why fear? The stuff of my being is matter, ever changing, ever moving, but never lost; so what need of denominations and creeds to deny… All
- They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God. Dark
- From barren brown stems to glistening leaf-buds; from the leaf-buds to snowy virginity of bloom…It was like a flute song forgotten in another existence and… All
- The morning air was like a new dress. That made her feel the apron tied around her waist. She untied it and flung it on… Air
- She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her. Then she went inside there to see what it was. It was her image… Blood
- Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her. Cake
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