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Home Quotes & Sayings Zora Neale Hurston Quotes (About Gold, Love, Nature)

Zora Neale Hurston Quotes: She was stretched on her back beneath the…

She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her. She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight.

("Their Eyes Were Watching God")

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When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.
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Well, she thought, that big old dawg with the hatred in his eyes had killed her after all.
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No man may make another free.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom. Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood.
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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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