The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
Zora Neale HurstonThrough indiscriminate suffering men know fear, and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom.
Zora Neale HurstonLove, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.
Zora Neale HurstonFrom barren brown stems to glistening leaf-buds; from the leaf-buds to snowy virginity of bloomโฆIt was like a flute song forgotten in another existence and remembered again. What? How? Why? This singing she heard that had nothing to do with her ears. The rose of the world was breathing out smell. It followed her through all her waking moments and caressed her in her sleep.
Zora Neale Hurston