More from Zora Neale Hurston

  1. Ah done been in sorrow's kitchen and Ah done licked out all de pots. Ah done died in grief and been buried in de bitter waters, and Ah done…
  2. 'Well, Ah see Mouth-Almighty is still sittin' in de same place. And Ah reckon they got me up in they mouth now.' 'Yes indeed. You know if y…
  3. Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure o…
  4. There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
  5. I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whos…
  6. 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 …
  7. I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. I do not belo…
  8. Gods always behave like the people who make them.

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