Zora Neale Hurston Quotes: You’se something tuh make uh man forgit to…

You'se something tuh make uh man forgit to git old and forgit tuh die.

("Their Eyes Were Watching God")

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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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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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There was already something dead about him. He didn't rear back in his knees any longer. He squatted over his ankles when he walked. That stillness at the back of his neck. His prosperous-looking belly…sagged like a load suspended from his loins.
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Gods always love the people who make em.
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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 when the bread didn't rise, and the fish wasn't quite done at the bone, and the rice was scorched, he slapped Janie until she had a ringing sound in her ears and told her about her brains before he stalked on back to the store.
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